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The Bigelow Building
The Bigelow Building

[416-418 Sixth Avenue and C.O. Bigelow Chemists at 412-414 Sixth Avenue.]

IMAGE DATE1980
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The Bigelow Building, ca. 1980.

Founded in 1838 by Dr. Galen Hunter, the C.O. Bigelow apothecary practice was sold to its present namesake, Clarence Otis Bigelow in 1880, and is today the oldest surviving apothecary–pharmacy in the United States.

The Bigelow building, a transitional Romanesque Revival/neo-Classical structure by architect John E. Nitchie was completed in 1902.

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