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91-93 Fifth Avenue is an eight-story store and loft building between 16th and 17th Streets in the Ladies’ Mile Historic District of
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
in New York City. The building was designed by
Louis Korn Louis Korn was an American architect from New York City who graduated from Columbia University in 1891. His notable buildings include 9-11 East 16th StreetNorval White, Elliot Willensky, Fran LeadonAIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.) Oxford Univer ...
for Henry and Samuel Corn and built between 1895 and 1896. Previous tenants include the
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(1900, 1905) and Clarendon Press (1905).


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