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. Built in 1907–08, the store-and-

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edifice, which was designed by

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in the

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style,"NYCLPC Ladies' Mile Historic District Designation Report, volume 2"

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(May 2, 1989), pp.784-85 is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and within the Ladies' Mile Historic District. Spero, a millinery goods wholesaler, purchased the site of the building from Benjamin Stern, and rented space in the completed building to "embroiderers, shirtwaist merchants, and cloak and suit merchants, all characteristic tenants in the district/" The building's frontage measures , and the facade is composed of limestone, and buff-colored brick. The entire structure cost approximately $350,000 to build.

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