Gunther Building Soho Loft Co-op Apartments

Few Soho loft apartments offer their owners as much history, stunning architecture, and financial advatanges as the Gunther Building. Located on the southwest corner of 469 Broome and 55 Greene Streets, this beautiful cast-iron building is more than 135 years old. New York City records show that loft apartments here also have an address 471 Broome Street.

Designed in 1871 by Griffin Thomas, an architect for many of Soho’s historic cast-iron buildings, it was originally created as a warehouse for New York furrier William Gunther. The cooperative apartments here are part of the Gunther Building 1873 Corp.

The original store, C.C. Gunther’s Sons, was opened in1820 by a German immigrant who had a business association with John Jacob Astor, a fur trader.

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