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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 477457, member: 33&quot;]I don&#039;t think that address was in the Wikipedia article, was it? I&#039;ll have to remember to look for it later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited: I see the address is in the article. It doesn&#039;t say when he started business there, but was there at the end of his career. And I think your photo of the boy is from the 1880s so that seems to line up. By the way, I found this very interesting blog post about the history of the building at 872 Broadway!&nbsp; <a href="http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-hawes-building-no-872-broadway.html?m=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-hawes-building-no-872-broadway.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-hawes-building-no-872-broadway.html?m=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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