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BOWLING GREEN OFFICES BUILDING, 5-11 Broadway (Aka 5-11 Greenwich Street), Manhattan Landmarks Preservation Commission September 19, 1995, Designation List 266 LP-1927 BOWLING GREEN OFFICES BUILDING, 5-11 Broadway (aka 5-11 Greenwich Street), Manhattan. Built 1895-98; W. & G. Audsley, architects. Landmark Site: Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 13, Lot 5. On May 16, 1995, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation of the Bowling Green Offices Building and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 2). The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of law . Eleven witnesses spoke in favor of designation, including Councilwoman Kathryn Freed and representatives of State Senator Catherine Abate, the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Municipal Art Society, the New Yark Landmarks Conservancy, the Fine Arts Federation, and the Seaport Task Force of Community Board 1. No one spoke in opposition to designation. A representative of the owners took no position regarding the proposed designation but stated that the owners wanted to cooperate with the Commission. The Commission has received several letters and other statements in support of designation including a resolution from Community Board 1. Summary An enormous and beautifully crafted presence at the base of Broadway, facing Bowling Green and extending through the block to Greenwich Street, the seventeen­ story Bowling Green Offices Building was designed and built in 1895-98 to be at the forefront of New York commercial towers in terms of its size, architectural style, and amenities. The architects were Scottish-born brothers William James and George Ashdown Audsley, whose fame rests largely on the more than twenty-five books they wrote on craftsmanship, decorative art, and related topics. Their design for the office building exhibits the "Hellenic Renaissance" style, which they defined as "a free but pure treatment of ancient Greek architecture," and is articulated in two nearly identical facades , each characterized by its tripartite base-shaft­ capital arrangement. The austere shaft, clad in white brick reflecting the structural skeleton within, is set off by the ornately carved granite base and the stylized terra­ cotta ornamentation of the top. The bold, straightforward design reflects the innovative work often associated with buildings of the Chicago School. The amenities and technical achievements of the Bowling Green Offices included a very large steel frame, a plan oriented around a light court that provided plentiful light and ventilation, and electric service. Throughout the twentieth century, the building has been occupied by businesses traditionally associated with this section of Manhattan: steamship companies, including the International Mercantile Marine Co. prior to its purchase of No. 1 Broadway, and related firms, including financial and legal interests. The client was the Broadway Realty Company, which owned the property for many decades and was directed in its early years by Spencer Trask and his successor, George Foster Peabody, both notable bankers and philanthropists. The architectural firm of Ludlow & Peabody, long associated with the building, reconfigured the original stoops on Broadway in 1912-13 and added a sympathetically designed seventeenth story and set-back four-story tower in 1917-20. The exterior of the building survives largely intact from that period with the exception of the storefronts. DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS Development of the Site and the Clients 1 The Architects3 Located at the southernmost section of Broadway, George Ashdown Audsley (1838-1925) received opposite Bowling Green, the site of 5-11 Broadway his architectural education in his native Scotland and (see fig . 1) was occupied by Dutch colonists as early was apprenticed to the respected firm of A. & W. as the 1650s, and for many years during the Reid before establishing himself in Liverpool. There nineteenth century it was the location of the Atlantic he began a partnership with his talented brother, Garden, a popular place of amusement, and, William James Audsley (1833-?), which continued subsequently, a freight depot of the New York Central until William's death. The brothers received many & Harlem River Railroad Company. important commissions in and near Liverpool, In June 1895 Stacy C. Richmond acquired the site particularly for religious buildings. Following the from attorney Joseph F. Stier, and in July a New erection of his West End Synagogue (in association Building Application was submitted on behalf of the with N.S. Joseph) in London, George moved to that Broadway Realty Company, a newly created city, where he confined himself to writing, and - organization headed by five businessmen: John A. occasionally in collaboration with William Barnard, James C. Ward, Arthur P.D. Burder, published more than twenty-five books, dealing Ferdinand E. Crassous, and Edward C. Hollister.2 By mainly with craftsmanship and decorative art; their January 1897 the company's directors included Stier, output includes Guide to the Art of Illuminating and Richmond, and prominent financier Spencer Trask as Missal Painting (1861), Handbook of Christian president. A native of Brooklyn and son of Alanson Symbolism (1865), Cottage, Lodge, and Villa Trask, a nationally prominent jobber and manufacturer Architecture (1868), Outlines of Ornament in the of shoes and boots, Spencer Trask (1844-1909) Leading Styles (1881), The Ornamental Arts of Japan established a banking house and became a member of (1882-84), and The Practical Decorator and the New York Stock Exchange. His investment house Ornamentist (1892). Strongly influenced by Gothic took a leading part in financing electric lighting Revivalist John Ruskin, those scholarly and lavishly corporations and other industrial enterprises; he also produced publications are devoted to a careful study bought and reorganized the New York Times, and was of ornament, especially of polychrome ornament. The a philanthropist of note. With his wife, Katrina Audsleys succinctly expressed their approach to Nichols, he built a country estate near Saratoga architecture in Cottage, Lodge and Villa Architecture: Springs, New York, known as "Yaddo. " Trask was succeeded as head of the Broadway . great art, whether expressing itself in Realty Company by his protege, George Foster words, colours, or stones, does not say the Peabody, who ran the company until the 1930s. same thing over and over again; that the Peabody (1852-1938) had arrived in New York as a merit of architectural, as of every other art, young man following the destruction of his family's consists in its saying new and different things; business during the Civil War. After clerking in a that to repeat itself is no more a wholesale drygoods store, he entered the firm of characteristic of genius in marble than it is of Spencer Trask & Company, and soon thereafter genius in print; and that we may, without became a partner. He served as director of the offending any laws of good taste, require of Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1914 to an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he 1921, and his other business interests included the should be not only correct, but entertaining. 4 General Electric and Edison Electric Illuminating companies and many railroads. Peabody was active To aid designers in that task, the Audsleys' books in the Democratic party at the state and national provide beautifully colored patterns, derived from a levels; as chairman of the New York State variety of historic styles and large enough to be a Reservation Commission he saved the hot springs at daily reference, unlike Owen Jones's Grammar of Saratoga and introduced future president Franklin D. Ornament, which they criticized as having plates "too Roosevelt to the natural springs at Warm Springs, small for daily use. "5 Georgia. Eventually Peabody became a trustee of the In 1892 George and William relocated to New foundation which supported research on infantile York, where they opened an architectural office, W. paralysis. In 1921 he married Spencer Trask's & G. Audsley. Their most prominent buildings in widow, Katrina Trask, thereby becoming involved in America were the Layton Art Gallery (1885-87, with the transformation of Y addo into a home for visiting E .T. Mix, now demolished) in Milwaukee and the artists. Broadway Realty owned the Bowling Green Bowling Green Offices Building (1895-98). Other Offices Building until 1978. works known to be theirs were the Christ P.E. Chapel (1899) on Wolcott Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and St. Edward the Confessor R.C. Church (1902-06) in Philadelphia, a local Landmark. From 1897 to 1902 2 the firm was located in the Bowling Green Offices Art Gallery in Milwaukee, which was faced in Building; they continued to practice from uptown Amherst sandstone, straw-colored pressed brick, and locations until 1910. During his later years, George terra cotta. Furthermore, the imposing "Hellenic was a noted expert in organ building; his publications Renaissance" Bowling Green Offices Building, in its on that subject led to his selection as designer of the effective use of continuous piers and concentrated great organ in the Festival Hall of the St. Louis ornament, is analogous to Louis H. Sullivan's famous Exposition (1904), an organ later installed in the John Wainwright Building (1890-91) in St. Louis, and other Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia. The organ case at buildings of the Chicago School. The facades of the Our Lady of Grace R.C. Church in Hoboken is also Bowling Green Offices and the Wainwright are his design. characterized by (1) a crisp structural expression of the grid formed by continuous vertical piers and Context in the Development of the Skyscraper6 recessed, molded spandrels (in both buildings only During the nineteenth century, commercial every other pier contained a steel column), and (2) buildings developed from four-story structures profuse ornament which is limited to certain sections modeled on Renaissance Italian palazzi to much taller of the design. The obvious differences between the skyscrapers.
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