Broadway from Broome Street

Buildings on west side Broadway, looking north from Broome Street. Published by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., Emporium of American and Foreign Stereoscopic Views, Chromos and Albums. Source of the photo: Stereoscopic views of hotels, New York Public Library.

The six-story St. Nicholas Hotel, with its large white marble façade and its dark five-story northern wing, stretches to the southwest corner of Spring Street. The Broadway front was 275 feet in length. It opened in January 1853 as a luxury hotel and it was fully completed in March, 1854.

The Grover & Baker building at 495 Broadway was redesigned in 1859. Previously it was the boarding house of Eunitia Bicknell, which, in 1854, housed the St. Nicholas Exhibition Room (see photo on the right).

The neoclassical Haughwout Building, a department store completed in 1857, is to the right.