The Architectural Evolution of Lower Manhattan From About 1880

Tour 6

Vesey Street /Ann Street (south side) to Cortlandt Street/ Maiden Lane West Street (east side) to William Street (west side)

Douglas R. McKibben Tour 6 Section 1 (of 2) Views of Extant Sites

1 American Telephone & Telegraph Building 5 22 Cortlandt Street Building 2 Gillespie Building 6 East River Savings Bank Building 3 179 to 183 Broadway 7 St. Paul’s Chapel 4 Germania Building Tour 6 Section 1 (of 2) Views of Sites Since Demolished A Mail and Express Building U World Trade Center Complex B Western Union Building V 38 Dey Street C Waterman Building W Franklin National Bank Building D Mercantile National Bank Building X 193 to 189 Greenwich Street E 173 Broadway Y 178 Greenwich Street F New York Telephone Company Building Z 71-63 Dey Street G Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. Building AA Evening Telegram Building H Havemeyer Building BB 126-130 West Street I Cortlandt Building (Hudson Terminal) CC Washington Market J 29, 31, 33 and 35-37 Cortlandt Street DD 205 Washington Street K J. Monroe Taylor Building EE 206-210 Greenwich Street L 165 Greenwich FF 49 Vesey Street M 135 Liberty Street GG Underwood Building N Central Railroad of New Jersey Building HH Glackner Building O 159-161 Washington Street II Ocean Bank Building P Plainfield Hotel JJ St. Christopher’s Chapel & Trinity Mission Q 115-118 Liberty Street KK 201-199 Fulton Street R Cortland Hotel LL Fulton Building (Hudson Terminal) S Camp Building MM 182 Fulton Street T Hudson Terminal Garage Building NN Trinity Church Vestry House Tour 6 Map – Section 1 (of 2)

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This is the link for map used for this tour (Bromley, 1930). Use it to enlarge areas and examine them in detail https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 A Mail and Express Building

203 Broadway circa 1893 164-168 Fulton Street facade (164-168 Fulton Street) Built 1892, razed circa 1920 Architects: Carriere & Hastings 16 stories Replaced by phase 2 of 195 Broadway (AT&T Building) Founded as the New York Evening Mail 1867 through 1877. New York Mail Nov 1877-Nov 1878), then The Mail through late 1879. Was Evening Mail 1879 through 1881, when owner Cyrus West Field acquired the New York Evening Express and created The Mail and Express. In 1904 became the Evening Mail again. Merged with Evening Telegram in 1924 which was renamed The New York Telegram, and then, in 1931, The World-Telegram.

Image source: King’s 1893 Photographic Views of New York Photo by: Geo. P. Hall & Son collection New York Historical Society American Telephone and Telegraph Building 1

195 (195-207) Broadway Built 1916 (phase 1), 1922 (phase 2) Architect: William Welles Bosworth 29 stories, 422 feet

Bronze sculpture Evelyn Beatrice Longman called Genius of Telegraphy sat atop the pyramid of the building’s Fulton Street wing until 1984 when AT&T headquarters moved.

Photo by: Irving Underhill, collection of the Museum of the City of New York Collection Image source: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20130102/ REAL_ESTATE/130109991/harpercollins-eyes-downtown-office-space B Western Union Building 195 Broadway, SE corner of Dey Street Built: 1875, razed circa 1912 Architect: G. B. Post

After 1890 fire, Henry J. Hardenberg redesigned burned upper four floors. Beginning in 1877, a ball was dropped from the top of the building at exactly noon, triggered by a telegraph from the National Observatory. Later used as the initial reference for Standard Railway Time in 1883, and would stay in use until 1912.

Image source: King’s 1893 Photographic Views of New York Image source: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GON/GON053.htm 2 Gillespie Building 5-7 Dey Street Built: 1921 Architect: Bertram Cunnyngham Neo-classicism 16 stories, 217 feet

Image source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1887 - 1986). Dey Street - Broadway Waterman Building C D 189-191 Broadway, SW corner Mercantile National Bank Dey Street (1-3 Dey Street) 191 Broadway SW corner (1-3) Dey Street Built 1862 Razed for Waterman Building

circa 1916

Image source: King’s Handbook of New York City 1892, pg. 675

Photo source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1916). Manhattan: Broadway - Dey Street circa 1923

3 179 to 183 Broadway between Dey and Cortlandt Streets

Photo source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1923). Manhattan: Broadway - Cortlandt Street 175 (left) and 177 Broadway 4 Present circa 1930 Germania Building 175 Broadway Built: 1865 French Second Empire 4.5 stories Built by the Germania Fire Insurance Company

Image source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1887 - 1986). Broadway between Cortlandt Street and Dey Street E 173 Broadway NW corner(2-8) Cortlandt Street 173 -191 Broadway NW corner Cortlandt Street circa 1930 to SW corner of Dey Street

Photo sources: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1887 - 1986).Broadway between Cortlandt Street and Dey Street F New York Telephone Company Building 22 Cortlandt Street Building 5 14-22 Cortlandt Street 14-22 Cortlandt Street, 9-17 Dey Street Originally Metropolitan Telephone and Telegram Building. Built: 1971 Merged in 1896 with Westchester Telephone to form Architects: Emory Roth & Sons New York Telephone Company. Razed circa 1971. Modernism 43 stories, 463 feet Commercial

circa 1905

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York G Delaware & Hudson Canal Company Building circa 1893 a.k.a. Coal & Iron Exchange 19-27 Cortlandt Street, SE corner Church Street Built 1876, razed circa 1908 Architect: Richard Morris Hunt The building was never an exchange and was custom built for the Canal Company which also ran the Delaware & Hudson Railway System that included a large freighting business of coal and other commodities. Razed to build the City Investing Company Building.

Image source: King’s Handbook of New York 1893, pg. 131 circa 1939

6 East River Savings Bank Building 26 Cortlandt Street NE corner Church Street Built: 1934 Architects: Walker & Gillette Art Deco Approximate site of large windmill circa 1686. At the time NYC was a flour-milling center. Two flour barrels appear on the City’s Great Seal.

Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York circa 1895

H Havemeyer Building 25-29 Church Street, NE corner (26-24) Cortlandt Street to Dey Street Built 1893, razed 1933 Architect: George B. Post Neo-classism 14 stories, 193 feet Replaced by East River Savings Bank Building on same plot. Havemeyer formed Sugar Refineries Company (Sugar Trust) in 1887. Reorganized in 1890 as American Sugar Refining Company due a court case but still referred to as the Sugar Trust

Image source: King’s 1895 Photographic Views of New York circa 1914 I Cortlandt Building (looking east) 30 Church Street NW corner Cortlandt Street to Dey Street Built 1908 razed 1971 Architect: James Hollis Wells (Clinton & Russell) 22 stories, 254 feet One of two Hudson Terminal Buildings. Cortlandt Building had larger foot print than sister, Fulton Building, 50 Church Street. Buildings connected by a three-story pedestrian bridge over Dey Street.

Image source: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1914). Hudson Terminal Building, New York J 29, 31, 33, 35-37 Cortlandt Street SW corner Church Street (left) circa 1940

Image source: New York City Department of Finance Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos L circa 1905 165 Greenwich K J. Monroe Taylor Building Built 1894, razed circa 1968 39-41 Cortlandt Street Architect: Oswald Wirz Romanesque 12 stories, 157 feet Built on the site of the old Merchant’s Hotel

Stood on what became the World Trade Center complex. Taylor was a manufacturer of soda products

Images sources: collection of the Museum of the City of New York M N 135 Liberty Street Central Railroad of New Jersey Building NE corner Washington Street 139-145 Liberty Street, NE corner Razed for construction of World Trade Center (105-108) West Street Razed to build the World Trade Center circa 1935

Photo by: Arthur Vitols Byron Company, collection of the Museum of the City of New York Photo by: Irving Underhill from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York O 159-161 Washington Street

circa 1933

Image source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1933). Manhattan: Washington Street - Liberty Street circa 1920 P Plainfield Hotel 77 Cortlandt Street NW corner (168) Washington Street A “gentlemen” only hotel.

Image source: Collection of the New York Historical Society Q 115 to 118 West Street Cortlandt Hotel (115) West Street on right NE corner (90-92) Cortlandt Street

circa 1938

collection of the Museum of the City of New York R Cortland Hotel a.k.a. Glen Island Hotel (circa 1930) 115 West Street NE corner (90-92) Cortlandt Street circa 1940

Images source: New York City Department of Finance Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos S Camp Building a.k.a. Cortlandt Street Hardware 76 (72-76) Cortlandt Street NE corner (171) Washington Street

Photo by: Geo. P. Hall & Son collection New York Historical Society Hudson Terminal Garage T Razed circa 1966 for WTC

168-174 Greenwich Street facade 66-68 Cortlandt Street facade circa 1935 circa 1935

Photos by: Arthur Vitols Byron Company, collection of the Museum of the City of New York T Hudson Street Terminal Garage 173-177 Washington Street façade

circa 1935

Photos by: Arthur Vitols Byron Company, collection of the Museum of the City of New York U World Trade Center Complex Circa 1965 demolition began on 16-acres bounded by Liberty Street, West Street, Vesey Street and Church Street. Complex comprised of seven buildings including Towers 1 and 2, both 110 stories of 1368 and 1362 feet, respectively. Major portions of Greenwich, Washington, Fulton, Dey and Cortlandt Streets were removed from the grid and the entire neighborhood called "Radio Row“, famous for its thrift stores for used electronics, was wiped out All buildings destroyed or razed due to damage after the 9/11 attack. Site being reconstituted with new buildings and the 9/11 memorial

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 W 38 Dey Street V Franklin National Bank Razed circa 1907 for Fulton Building, 60 Dey Street NE corner Greenwich Street part of Hudson terminal Complex circa 1900 circa 1892

Image source: King’s Handbook of New York City 1892, pg. 749 Photo by: George P Hall & Son, collection of the New York Historical Society X 193 to 189 Greenwich NE corner Dey Street

circa 1941

Photo by: H.F. Dutcher, collection of the New York Historical Society circa 1940

Y 178 Greenwich Street SW corner Dey Street

Image source: New York City Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo circa 1925 Z 71 to 63 Dey Street SE corner Washington Street Razed for World Trade Center

Image source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1925). Manhattan: Dey Street - Washington Street AA Evening Telegram Building Telegram (a.k.a. Globe) Square 73-83 Dey Street SW corner (178-180) Washington Street circa 1932

Photo source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1932). Manhattan: Washington Street - Dey BB 126-130 West Street SE corner (258-260) Fulton Street (left)

circa 1938

Image source: ollection of the Museum of the City of New York circa 1914

CC Washington Market West Street, NE corner Fulton Street NW corner Washington Street and south side of Vesey Street Woolworth Building in background After the Civil War wholesale market moved to North Moore Street and this site was retail only until it closed in 1956. Wholesale market closed in 1967. Site now part of World Trade Center complex, One World Trade.

Photo by: H. N. Tiemann & Co., collection of the NY Historical Society EE DD 206-210 Greenwich Street 205 (203-205) Washington Street SW corner Vesey Street SE corner (81-77) Vesey Street

circa 1940

Images source: New York City Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo FF Underwood Building GG 49 Vesey Street 209 (207-211) Greenwich Street Razed to build World Trade Center SE corner (57-65) Vesey Street Underwood Expanded here AFTER building extant circa 1930 30 Vesey Building. Razed for World Trade Center. circa 1940 Looking North on Greenwich Street Looking west on Vesey Street

Photo by: Percy Loomis Sperr, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1930). Manhattan: Vesey Street - Church Street Images source: New York City Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos HH II Glackner Building Ocean Bank Building 192 Greenwich Street, SW corner 220 Fulton Street, (227-231) Fulton Street 197 Greenwich Street circa 1918

Photo source: Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection New York Historical Society Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York St. Christopher’s Chapel and Trinity Mission JJ 201-199 Fulton Street KK 213-211 Fulton Street

circa 1912 All razed for World Trade Center circa 1930

Photo by: Wurts Bros. from collection of the Museum of the City of New York

Photo by: Wurts Bros. from collection of the Museum of the City of New York Misidentified as 209 Fulton Street Fulton Building (looking east) LL circa 1910 50 Church St at Cortlandt Street, NW Corner to Dey Street Built 1908, razed 1966 Architect: James Hollis Wells (Clinton & Russell) 22 stories, 254 feet Together with Cortlandt Building at 30 Church Street comprised Hudson Terminal Buildings Hudson Terminal used by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. A three-story underground concourse connected the office structures with ticket offices, waiting rooms, and retail shops. The second level had access to five train tracks with elevated platforms, while the third and lowest level was for baggage and an electrical sub-station. The concourse was designed with a system of ramps descending from street level to the mezzanine, to allow pedestrian traffic to flow in and out of the station quickly and easily. Terminal could accommodate 687,000 people per day. (Pennsylvania Station designed to handle 500,000.) Annual volume in 1922 was over 59 million people.

Photo by Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York MM 182 Fulton Street SE corner Church Street

circa 1928

Photo by P.W.. Pulllis, Pierre P. Pullis from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York 7 St. Paul’s Chapel 209-211 Broadway, 57 Church Street, 175 Fulton Street, 1-29 Vesey Street Built: 1766 (Tower and steeple, 1796) Architects: Thomas McBean, Andrew Gautier Gregorian (Neo-classicism) Two stories A chapel of the Parish of Trinity Church, built on a land grant from Queen Anne. Design believed influenced by St. Martin’s-in-the- Fields in London. Oldest surviving church building in Manhattan. Oldest public building in continuous use in New York City. Washington worshiped here on his Inauguration Day, April 30, 1789. Much of interior decoration by Pierre L’Enfant. During the two years New York City was the country's capital, Washington attended services at St. Paul's while Trinity Church was being rebuilt. Photo by: Byron Company from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York NN circa 1910 Trinity Church Vestry House 187 Fulton Street 61 Church Street, 29 Vesey Street Razed between 1925 and 1927 Formerly located behind St. Paul’s Church. Area is now part of the church’s graveyard.

Photo by: Wurts Bros., collection of the Museum of the City of New York Tour 6 – Section 2 (of 2) Views of Extant Sites 1 Fultonhaus Building 23 24 John Street Building 2 111 Fulton Street Building 24 Prescott Building 3 Royal Baking Powder Company Building 25 Cockcroft Building 4 Fulton-Chambers Building 26 75 Nassau Street Building 5 Downing Building 27 Downtown Shopping Centre Building 6 110 Fulton Street Building 28 39 John Street 7 118 Fulton Street Building 29 John Street United Methodist Church 8 Kueffel & Esser Building 30 Frankel Building 9 94 Nassau Street Building 31 Hilliard Building 10 Armeny Building 32 123 William Street Building 11 Bennett Building 33 59 John Street Building 12 Fulton Building 34 New Amsterdam Casualty Company 13 Moxy New York Downtown (Hotel) 35 Home Insurance Plaza 14 142 Fulton Street 36 2 Federal Reserve Plaza 15 Western Electric Building 37 Holiday Inn – Wall Street 16 Fulton Street Transit Center 38 Hays Building 17 Corbin Building 39 Diamond Exchange Building 18 182 Broadway Building 40 Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Building 19 Anderson Building 41 Jewelers Building 20 Dennison Manufacturing Company Building 42 William Barthman Building 21 Tyler Building 43 Title Guaranty and Trust Company Building 22 16-18-20-22 John Street Tour 6 – Section 2 (of 2) Views of Sites Since Demolished

A Knox Building O Girard Building B National Park Bank Building Child’s Restaurant C New York Herald Building Q 182-184 Broadway D St. Paul Building R Chesebrough Building E 30 to 2 Anne Street S 180 Broadway Building F F. W. DeVoe & C. T. Reynolds Company Building T 19 John Street G 115-117 Fulton Building U 75-77 Nassau Building H 112 to 118 Fulton Street V Sheldon Building I Raymond Building W United Underwriters Building J Orcutt’s Restaurant X 99-101 Building K Whyte’s Restaurant Y 85-97 William Street Building L 146-150 Fulton Street Building Z City of New York Insurance Company Building M Evening Post Building AA 55-57 Maiden Lane N Hegeman Building BB Reserve Court Building CC Lawyer’s Mortgage Company Building Tour 6 Map - Section 2

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Y Y X Z This is the link for map used for this tour (Bromley, 1930). Use it to enlarge areas and examine them in detail https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 A Knox Building a.k.a. United Building 212 Broadway, NE corner (161-167)Fulton Street Twenty-three US Presidents wore Knox hats including Abraham Lincoln’s ‘stovepipe’ hat. First store at 110 Fulton destroyed by 1835 fire. Store at 216 Broadway also destroyed by fire along with P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. Razed to build Western Electric Building circa 1960.

Photo by: Robert L. Bracklow from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York B Built 1904, razed 1961 National Park Bank Building Architect: Donn Barber 214-216 Broadway Built 1868, razed 1904 French classic modernism Razed circa 1960 to build Architect: Griffith Thomas Portions on Ann and Fulton Streets Western Electric Building French second empire Five stories, 104 feet

Formerly Park Bank of New York City. Acquired by Chase National Bank

Photo source: collection of the Museum of the City of New York Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York C New York Herald Building 220-222 Broadway, SE corner Ann Street Built: 1867, razed circa 1895 Architect: John Kellum French Second Empire Six stories On former site of Barnum’s American Museum. Razed to build St. Paul Building

Photo by: H.N. Tiemann & Co. collection New York Historical Society D St. Paul Building 220-222 Broadway, SE corner (2-8) Ann Street Built 1898, razed circa 1958 Architect: George B. Post Classic revival 26 stories, 315 feet Razed to build Western Electric Building

Photo source: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.skyscraper.org/TALLEST_TOWERS/Pics/t_stpaul.jpg Photo by: Geo. P. Hall & Son collection New York Historical Society E 30 to 2 Anne Street circa 1909 30 Ann Street (Bennett Building) to St. Paul Building, (8-2 Anne Street) SE corner Broadway.

Includes 30, 28-24, 22, 20, 18, 16-10, 8-2 Ann Street.

Image source: Collection of the Museum of the City of New York circa 1921

1 Fultonhaus Building 119 Fulton Street, 50 Ann Street Built: 1920 Architects: H. P. Allan Montgomery, John T. Riggs Originally seven stories, 75 feet. Seven additional stories added circa 2007. Now 14 stories, 178 feet Residential (condominium)

Photo by: Wurts Bros, collection of the Museum of the City of New York 2 111 Fulton Street Building 101-117 Fulton Street, 52-64 Ann Street, 143-155 William Street Built: 1940 Seven stories, 100 feet Commercial (offices) H. Thomas O’Hara has designed a 10-story addition to the seven-story building.

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 F F. W. DeVoe & C. T. Reynolds Company Building 101 (101-103 )Fulton NW corner William Street circa 1892 Built 1864 Manufacturer of paints and varnishes. Factory building (1883) at 110 Horatio Street extant.

Image source: King’s Handbook of New York 1892, pg. 889 circa 1940 3 Royal Baking Powder Company Building now Pace University dormitory 135 (135-141) William Street SW corner (100) Fulton Street Built: 1904 Architects: Bruce Price beaux-arts / historism 16 stories, 209 feet Converted to dormitory in 2001 by Gene Kaufman In 1929, the Royal Baking Powder Company, along with four other companies including the Fleischmann’s Yeast Company merged to form Standard Brands, the number two brand of packaged foods in U. S. after General Foods.

Image source: New York City, Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo circa 1940

4 Fulton-Chambers Building 102-104 Fulton Street Built: 1896 Architects: Silliman & Farnsworth Renaissance revival Nine stories, 100 feet Cast iron façade

Image source: New York City, Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo 5 Downing Building a.k.a. Pace University Fulton Street Residence Hall Crawford & Company Building Looking west circa 1895 106-108 Fulton Street, 14 Dutch Street Built: 1894 Architects: Silliman & Farnsworth Looking east circa 1940 Chicago School 15 stories, 190 feet Converted to University use in 2000. From 1996 design by Gene Kaufman for hotel conversion

Image source: New York City, Department Image source: King’s Photographic Views of New York, 1895, pg. 275 of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo 6 110 Fulton Street Building 110 Fulton Street, 16-18 Dutch Street Built: 1927 Architect: William F. Hemstreet 15 stories, 175 feet Residential

Photo source: ttps://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=EUXvW_HdK6HSjwS2wZm4Cw&q=110+fulton+street+nyc%2C+image&oq=110+fulton +street+nyc%2C+image&gs_l=img.3...28778.33513..33787...0.0..0.86.708.10...... 0....1..gws-wiz-img...... 0i24.UwfEbfqVNQI#imgrc=6e76c14GrF_gxM: circa 1940

G 117-115 Fulton Street Building Formerly Downtown YMCA Razed circa 1940 to build extant 111 Fulton Street Building

Image source: New York City Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos 7 118 Fulton Street Building 112-118 Fulton Street, 17-19 Dutch Street Built: 2018 H Architects: Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron 112 to 118 Fulton Street (left to right) 63 stories, 758 feet circa 1940 Residential (apartments)

Image source: New York City, Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 94 Nassau Street Building 9 Replaced the Raymond Building circa 1940 94-102 Nassau Street 129-133 Fulton Street, 36-40 Ann Street Built: 1929 circa 1940 Four Stories

8 Kueffel & Esser Building 127 Fulton (42 Ann Street) Built: 1893 Architects: De Lomos & Cordes Eight stories, 89 feet K&E, a drafting instrument and supplies company

Images source: New York City, Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos circa 1895

I Raymond Building 94-102 Nassau Street 129-133 Fulton Street, 36-40 Ann Street Built circa 1856, razed circa 1928 Raymond Brothers, men’s outfitters

Image source: King’s Photographic Views of New York, 1895 pg. 272 10 Armeny Building 90 Nassau, SE corner (124-126) Fulton Street Built: 1888 Architects: De Lemos & Cordes Two stories added 1892 Armeny was a jeweler and pen manufacturer

Photo by Alice Lum for daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com

Image source: American Architect & Building News, October 6, 1889 (copyright expired) 11 Bennett Building 135-139 Fulton, 93-99 Nassau Street, 28-34 Ann Street Built: 1873, four floors added 1894 Architects: Arthur Gilman, Silliman & Farnsworth French Second Empire Ten stories, 125 feet Tallest building in the world with a cast iron façade. Originally had a substantial mansard roof that was removed in 1889 Commissioned by James Gordon Bennett publisher of the New York Herald newspaper

Photo source: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. Manhattan: Nassau Street - Fulton Street 12 Fulton Building 130 (126-136) Fulton Street NW corner (87-91) Nassau Street Built: 1893 Renaissance revival Architects: De Lemos & Cordes 13 stories, 144 feet

Photo source: A History of Real Estate and Architecture in New York City During the Last Quarter of a Century, The Real Estate Record Association, 1898, pg. 630 J Orcutt’s Restaurant 141 Fulton Street Building razed circa 1960 and replaced with a six-story mixed-use building

Photo by :Robert L. Bracklow from the collection of the New York Historical Society K circa 1940 Whyte’s Restaurant a.k.a. Willard’s Restaurant 143-145 Fulton Street 24-26 Anne Street White family (their name spelled with “i”) sold the Fulton Street restaurant early in 1929 to a group that renamed it Willard’s. Whyte’s moved to 521 Fifth Avenue. Due to high rent and the depression Whyte’s declared bankruptcy in early 1932. Shortly after, Willard’s at the Fulton Street address had to close and the Whyte family returned to 145 Fulton Street and reopened in June of 1932. Whyte’s closed in 1971

Image source: New York City Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos Moxy New York Downtown (Hotel) 13 14 142 Fulton Street 143-145 Fulton Street 24-26 Ann Street Built: 1909 Built: 2018 Six stories, 66 feet Architects: Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron 30 stories, 364 feet Built on site of former Whyte’s/Willards Restaurant

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 http://collections.mcny.org/Collection/[142 Fulton Street.]-2F3XC5IW7W7W.html circa 1940

L 146-150 Fulton Street Building

Image source: New York City Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos 15 Western Electric Building 212-222 Broadway (147-165 Fulton Street, 2-22 Ann Street) Built: 1961 Architects: Shreve Lamb & Harmon Associates Modernism 31-story (393 feet) United Building (Knox Building), Chase National Bank Branch (National Park Bank Building) and St. Paul Building razed for this project.

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 circa 1935 N Hegeman Building 200-202 Broadway

M Evening Post Building a.k.a. International Trust Building 204-210 Broadway, SE corner Fulton Street Built 1875, razed circa 1937 Architect: Thomas Stent Romanesque Ten stories, 140 feet Evening Post founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801. Moved from this building in 1906 to 20 Vesey Street Tour 11 Section 1 3 )

Photo source: Irving Underhill, Museum of the City of New York Collection Photo source: Irving Underhill, Museum of the City of New York Collection P Child’s Restaurant 194-196 Broadway Razed 2007

O circa 1925 Girard Building 198 Broadway Built 1902, razed 2007 Architect: Walter H. Wickes Neo-classism (Assyrian revival) 12 stories, 133 feet

Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York

http://collections.mcny.org/Collection/[194 Broadway.]-2F3XC5UXKVMK.html 16 Fulton Street Transit Center 156-144 Fulton Street, 192-210 Broadway 1-13 John Street Built: 2014 All buildings razed except the Corbin Building (192 Broadway, 1-13 John Street) which was refurbished and incorporated into the plan

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 17 Corbin Building (a.k.a. Chatham & Phenix National Bank Building circa 1916) 192 Broadway NE corner John Street (1-13 John Street) Built: 1889 Architect: Francis H. Kimball Romanesque revival Nine stories, 135 feet (20 feet wide by 161 feet long) Named for Austin Corbin, a president of the Long Island Railroad who also founded several banks. Built as a speculative venture for use as office space or housing. Preceding the use of steel skeletons structures, it employs cast iron beams and load-bearing masonry walls.

Photo by: Geo. P. Hall & Son collection New York Historical Society Q circa 1892 182-184 Broadway SE corner (2) John Street Offices of Seventh National Bank of New York. As the Seventh Ward Bank it was formerly located on SE corner Pearl Street and Burling Slip (see Tour 8 Section 2 Q ). Merged in 1903 with Mercantile National Bank of New York. Through various other mergers became a part of the Bank of New York. Not to be confused with Progress National Bank of New York which changed its name to Seventh National Bank of New York in 1922 and after several mergers was liquidated in 1930. Building razed circa 1929. Image source: King’s Handbook of New York 1892, pg. 670 R S Chesebrough Building 180 Broadway (Horn & Hardart Automat and Fanny Farmer Candies) Built: 1901, razed circa 2011 182-184 Broadway SE corner (2-10) John Street 12 stories, 133 feet Built 1930, razed circa 2011 former 182 Broadway on left Six stories, 66 feet circa 1939 circa 1904

Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Photo source: Irving Underhill, Museum of the City of New York Collection 18 182 Broadway Building now Pace University Dormitory 180-184 Broadway SE corner (2-10) John Street Built: 2012 23 stories, 360 feet

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 19 Anderson Building 12-16 John Street Built: 1898 Architects: Ralph Townsend & James J. Campbell 12 stories, 159 feet Residential

Image source: Architecture and Building Magazine, vol. 27 no. 15, October 9, 1897 p. 134. Dennison Manufacturing Company Building 20 15 John Street Tyler Building 21 Built: 1903 Nine stories, 100 feet 17 (17-23) John Street Built: 1926 A tag and label company Architects: Clinton & Russell that merged with Avery Art Deco Corporation in 1990 15 stories, 194 feet Converted to apartments 1999

https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/financial-district/17-john-street/6208

Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York circa 1893

T 19 John Street H. A. Rogers Dealer in machinist supplies and tools This site covered by the 1926 Tyler Building (extant)

Image source: King’s Handbook of New York 1893, pg. 905 22 22-20-18-16 John Street (left to right) 22 and 18 John Street are wings of Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Building that pass through from 15-19 Maiden Lane (see 40 ) and wrap around the four-story 20 John Street. The Anderson Building occupies 16 (12-16) John Street (a.k.a. 12 John Street Building).

Photo by: Robert L. Bracklow, collection New York Historical Society 24 23 Prescott Building 24 John Street Building 65 (65-69) Nassau Street 24-26 John Street SW corner (28-30) John Street Built: 2015 Built: 1902 Architect: Gerald J. Caliendo Ten stories, 135 feet 21 stories, 206 feet Hotel

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 25 Cockcroft Building 29 (25-31) John Street NW corner Nassau Street Built: 1907 Architect: Jay H. Morgan Beaux-arts 16 stories, 180 feet

Image source: https://www.google.com/search?q=29+john+street,+nyc,+image&tbm =isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=k0_cv1u7wCfVbM%253A%252Cz-jcogI5MF0gLM%252C _&usg=__FrDQ8qVNUTv6TdSxC_iLhuGJpEI%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDscCLs7XaAhWj5 4MKHWwwAMgQ9QEIKTAA#imgrc=k0_cv1u7wCfVbM: 75 Nassau Street Building 26 U 75-85 Nassau Street 75-77 Nassau Street Built: 2021 Razed 2018 Architects: Office for Design & Architecture 40-stories, 498 feet Residential (condominiums) circa 1940

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 Image source: New York City Department of Finance Manhattan 1940’s Tax Photos circa 1940

27 Downtown Shopping Centre Building 80-84 Nassau Street

Image source: New York City Department of Finance Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos 39 (37-39) John Street 28 NE corner Nassau Street Three stories Buildings previously on site circa 1922 circa 1912

Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Photo by: Robert L. Bracklow, collection New York Historical Society V Sheldon Building 34 (32-34) John Street, SE corner (68-70) Nassau Street Built 1896, razed Architect: Charles W. Clinton 12 stories, 164 feet

Image source: Post card by American Studios, http://skyscraper.org/tenandtaller/grid/ John Street United Methodist Church 29 a.k.a. Old John Street Methodist Episcopal Church 44 John Street Built: 1841 Architect: William Hurry or William Embury Georgian Oldest Methodist congregation in N. America (1766). First church on this site in 1768. The second was built in 1817-18, The third and current church was necessitated by the widening of John Street. Designated a New York City Landmark in 1964 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Sold air rights for the building to the adjacent 33 Maiden Lane (3 Federal Reserve Plaza) The buildings formerly on 48 John Street and 42 John Street have been removed and empty space appears to provide courtyards for the church. Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Street_Methodist_Church#/media/File:John_Street_Methodist_Church.jpg 31 Hilliard Building 55 (51-57) John Street , NE corner (2-12 Dutch Street Built: 1912 Architects: Howells & Stokes 16 stories, 197 feet When the 123 (123-133) William Street Building was constructed in 1957 on the site of (the former United Underwriters Building) the adjacent Hilliard Building was incorporated as part of the new structure.

30 Frankel Building 45 (45-49) John Street 1-5 Dutch Street Built: 1908 Architects: Howells & Stokes 14 stories 155 feet Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York

Image source: https://www.emporis.com/buildings/149015/45-john-street-new-york-city-ny-usa W 123 William Street Building 32 United Underwriters Building 123-133 William Street, 4-12 Dutch Street 123-133 William Street Built: 1957 Razed circa 1956 Architects: Emory Roth & Sons It is said that Washington Irving was 26 stories, 365 feet born at 131 William in 1783 circa 1940

Image source: New York City Department of Finance Manhattan 1940s Tax Photos Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 circa 1940

33 59 John Street Building 59-65 John Street NW corner (111-121) William Street Built: 1909 13 stories

Image source: New York City Department of Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo 34 New Amsterdam Casualty Company circa 1932 a.k.a. City of New York Manhattan Business Center 50-68 John Street, SW corner (103-109 William Street) Built: 1929 Architects: Clinton and Russell X 19 stories 99-101 William Street 30-story addition added in 1930 Razed circa 1963 to the William Street corner circa 1940

Photo by: Wurts Brothers from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York Image source: New York City Department of Finance Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo 85-97 William Street Building Y City of New York Insurance Z NW corner (57-65) Maiden Lane Company Building Incorporated with 93-97 William Street 61-63 Maiden Lane as a single building Razed early 1920s for 85-97 William Street Building Razed circa 1963 for Home Insurance Plaza 12 stories circa 1940 Merged with the Home circa 1910 Insurance Company.

Image source: New York City Department of https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-08f1-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 Finance, Manhattan 1940s Tax Photo Photo by: Irving Underhill, Museum of the City of New York Collection BB AA Reserve Court Building 55 to 57 Maiden Lane 51 (51-53) Maiden Lane and, separately 55 Maiden Lane circa 1930 low-rise building on right) circa 1921

Photo by: Irving Underhill, Museum of the City of New York Photo by: Irving Underhill, Museum of the City of New York Collection 35 Home Insurance Plaza 41-65 Maiden Lane (85-89 William Street, Built: 1966 Alfred Easton Poor International style 45 stories, 630 feet Built for Home Insurance Company. One of the first downtown international- style skyscrapers to follow One Chase Manhattan Plaza.

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 Lawyers Mortgage Company Building CC Same site circa 1893 56-64 Nassau Street, NE corner (29-33) Maiden Lane Randel, Baremore & Billings diamond importers and jewelers. Building built 1851

Image source: Wurts Brothers, Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History Image source: King’s 1893 Photographic Views of New York and Genealogy, New York Public Library. (1887 - 1964). 56 Nassau Street - Maiden Lane 36 2 Federal Reserve Plaza a.k.a. 33 Maiden Lane 29-39 Maiden Lane, 32-40 John Street, 58-70 Nassau Street Built: 1986 Architects: Johnson and Burgee Post-modernism 27 stories, 299 feet Bought air rights from John Street Methodist Church

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 37 Holiday Inn – Wall Street 20 Maiden Lane, SE corner Liberty Place, 51 Nassau Street Built: 2008 Architect: Gene Kaufman 20 stories, 185 feet

Image source: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ee487620-2178-0132-71b9-58d385a7b928 38 Hays Building 21 (21-23) Maiden Lane Built: 1900 Eight stories, 89 feet

Image source: https://www.google.com/search?q=21-23+maiden+lane,+image&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir= p-SOqhOAJKwfYM%253A%252CVQddmVB_PO9lDM%252C_&usg=lgNMjuKI1UakLa7zR-1wVPkA-N0%3D&sa=X& ved=0ahUKEwjHp-z7v7XaAhWJ5YMKHUhpAm0Q9QEIKTAA#imgrc=p-SOqhOAJKwfYM: 39 Diamond Exchange Building 14 Maiden Lane Built: 1894 Architect: George A. Schellenger 11 stories, 120 feet Maiden Lane was the center of had been the center of the Diamond District starting about 1795.

Image source: http://skyscraper.org/tenandtaller/grid/ Image source: https://www.google.com/search?q=14+maiden+lane,+nyc,+image&tbm=isch&source=i u&ictx=1&fir=thUgo4WuOd0rxM%253A%252CA_iigp8Y26rkyM%252C_&usg=__kzHrtrPRTzeKxdS-xSbm

rws5aBY%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU8runxrXaAhXKy4MKHbMXDEAQ9QEIKzAB#imgrc=thUgo4WuOd0rxM: Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Building 40 Jewelers Building 41 a.k.a. Atlantic Bank of New York Building 11 (9-13) Maiden Lane 15-19 Maiden Lane, 22 John Street, 18 John Street Built: 1898 Built: 1908 15 stories, 218 feet Architects: Clinton and Russell Neo-classism 20 stories, 265 feet

Image source: https://www.google.com/search?q=15+maiden+lane+image&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=2NrhIn8tMnp1rM% Image source: https://www.google.com/search?q=11+maiden+lane,+nyc,+image&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=GaRChJuQC0_ 253A%252Cpq7NcfS18ixsRM%252C_&usg=__1gHr-YRC4soI-0pVNJivFu_PwO0%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-z_a5yLXaAhVk74MKHc8 K_M%253A%252CjskyOU1SwKUwBM%252C_&usg=__tBdW_zBZHko8tzGe2W-9g8spxsk%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5sZGVx7XaAhV QCnMQ9QEIOzAG#imgrc=2NrhIn8tMnp1rM: U_oMKHVpsBh0Q9QEIKTAA#imgrc=GaRChJuQC0_K_M: 42 William Barthman Building (a.k.a. Cushman Building) 174 Broadway, NE corner (1-3) Maiden Lane Built: 1898 Architect: C.P.H. Gilbert Beaux-arts 12 stories, 160 feet Barthman is a jewelry company started in 1884. Store has a clock In the sidewalk.

Photo source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/75683070@N00/7237154902 circa 1910

43 Title Guaranty and Trust Company Building 176-178 Broadway (7 Maiden Lane) Built: 1906 Architects: Howell and Stokes 14 stories, 155 feet A 14-story addition designed by architect John Mead Howells was added in 1923 at 7 (5-7) Maiden Lane.

Photo by: Geo. P. Hall & Son collection New York Historical Society