Carter's Review

The Hohner Buidling is very handsome, 8-story, mid-block structure at 473 Broadway between Grand and Broome streets in SoHo was erected in 1894 and converted to residential condominiums in 2004. 

The building was designed by Ralph Townsend with a limestone façade as a textile and rug showroom building with M. Hohner, the noted harmonica manufacturer, on the sixth floor. 

The conversion, which was designed by Joseph Pell Lombardi, added some set-back penthouses with the approval of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. 

SoHo Tower LLC of which Maurice Laboz is a principle was the developer, 

The building, which is also known as 46 Mercer Street, has 30 apartments.

Bottom Line

This attractive, through-block, 19^th Century building has large apartments with high ceilings and is two doors north of the larger and more flamboyant 40 Mercer Street designed by Jean Nouvel in the heart of SoHo.

Description

The building has an elegant façade with handsome retail space on Broadway with rustication on the third and fourth floors and stringcourses above the second, fourth and seventh floors. 

It has a reproduction of the original copper cornice. 

The Mercer Street wing has a plainer façade. 

Amenities

The two-building complex has key-locked elevators.

Apartments

Apartments have high ceilings, wood-burning fireplaces, SubZero refrigerators, Viking ovens, and Miele dishwashers. 

Kitchens have Viking ovens, SubZero refrigerators and Miele dishwashers. 

A typical floor-through unit has a 27-foot-long living room with fireplace and 13-foot-high ceilings adjacent to a dining area with an open, eat-in, 17-foot-long kitchen with an island and three-bedrooms, one with a small balcony. 

Penthouse 8A is a two-bedroom duplex with 2,007 square feet of interior space and a terrace.

Penthouse W is a duplex with a 32-foot-long living area with a 15-foot-long terrace and a 17-foot-long kitchen that opens onto a 27-foot-long dining area with a fireplace on the lower level and a 40-foot-long bedroom suite on the upper level with two large terraces. 

A two-bedroom unit has a 45-foot-long living room with an open kitchen, a 13-foot-wide mezzanine loft, a 12-foot-wide home office, and a 36-foot-long studio space. 

Apartment 5E is a two-bedroom apartment with a 12-foot-long study, a 24-foot-long living room adjacent to a 14-foot-long dining space adjacent to an open kitchen with an island.