SOUTH STREET SEAPORT MUSEUM 250 WATER STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT
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250 WATER STREET
JOHN STREET LOT
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THE JOHN STREET LOT 250 WATER STREET
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The South Street Seaport Museum • Active role to save the Historic District • Preservation of buildings and ships • Interpreter of the Historic District • Campus de!nes Historic District
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The South Street Seaport Museum • Active role to save the Historic District • Preservation of buildings and ships • Interpreter of the Historic District • Campus de!nes Historic District
The Historic District • Rise of NYC’s shipping and !nance • 20th century planning saves the District via construction of tall buildings • Many failed attempts to support the Museum
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The South Street Seaport Museum • Active role to save the Historic District • Preservation of buildings and ships • Interpreter of the Historic District • Campus de!nes Historic District
The Historic District 250 Water Street • Rise of NYC’s shipping and !nance • 20th century planning saves Edge location in Historic District the District via construction of • tall buildings • Vacant for decades • Many failed attempts to support • Large full block the Museum
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The South Street Seaport Museum • Active role to save the Historic District • Preservation of buildings and ships • Interpreter of the Historic District • Campus de!nes Historic District
DEVELOPMENT The Historic District SUPPORTS THE MUSEUM 250 Water Street • Rise of NYC’s shipping and !nance • 20th century planning saves AND DISTRICT Edge location in Historic District the District via construction of • tall buildings • Vacant for decades • Many failed attempts to support • Large full block the Museum
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE MUSEUM AND ITS DISTRICT A REVITALIZED MUSEUM THE COMPLETION OF THE DISTRICT AT 250 WATER ST
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“The South Street Seaport Museum preserves and interprets the origins and growth of New York City as a world port, a place where goods, labor and cultures are exchanged through work, commerce and the interaction of diverse communities.” — South Street Seaport Museum Mission Statement !"#$ THE SEAPORT MUSEUM
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“The South Street Seaport Museum is not four walls with paintings of ships on the high seas... Its treasures are the buildings in that neighborhood and the sailing ships moored at its piers.” — Barry Lewis and Virginia Dajani “The South Street Seaport Museum” The Livable City, No. 8/1 (1981) !"#" SEAPORT MUSEUM MASTER PLAN %UPDATED 1974&
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“The admixture of functions — restaurants, small museums, taverns, theatres — woven through the general pattern of commercial ground floor and office upper-floor uses will generate a genuine atmosphere of activity.” — South Street Seaport: A plan for a vital new historic center in Lower Manhattan, 1969 !"#" SEAPORT MUSEUM MASTER PLAN %UPDATED 1974&
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“The admixture of functions — restaurants, small museums, taverns, theatres — woven through the general pattern of commercial ground floor and office upper-floor uses will generate a genuine atmosphere of activity.” — South Street Seaport: A plan for a vital new historic center in Lower Manhattan, 1969 !"#" SEAPORT MUSEUM MASTER PLAN %UPDATED 1974& 250 WATER STREET
JOHN STREET LOT
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“The city created the South Street Seaport District, consisting of transfer lots and receiving lots, to preserve the historic structures along Schermerhorn Row, while allowing for new commercial development in the whole seaport area.” — Robin K. Foster, The South Street Seaport and the Crisis of the Sixties (2016) !"$'
TRANSFER DISTRICT
Buildings Constructed Using Transferred Floor Area
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The first two decades of the 21st century devastated the Museum’s finances and operation.
2001 2008 2012 2020
9/11 FINANCIAL CRISIS SUPERSTORM SANDY PANDEMIC & FISCAL CRISIS
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MARITIME RESOURCES FULTON FERRY HOTEL MUSEUM ARCHIVES
TITANIC MEMORIAL
HISTORIC DISTRICT
MUSEUM BLOCK
NY CENTRAL NO 31
TICKET KIOSK AMBROSE WAVERTREE W. O. DECKER
CANNON’S WALK
JOHN A LYNCH FERRYBOAT
PIER 16
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“The Museum has been highly instrumental in revitalizing this area... Through the efforts of the Museum, many have become increasingly aware of the richness, diversity and great historical significance of the South Street Seaport.”
— Landmarks Designation Report (1977)
MUSEUM DISTRICT
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SCHERMERHORN ROW SCHERMERHORN ROW
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MATCH MASSING
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MATCH MASSING
DISTINCT STOREFRONT
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DISTINCT STOREFRONT
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MUSEUM PROPOSAL, GIORGIO CAVAGLIERI MUSEUM PROPOSAL, BEYER BLINDER BELLE %APPROVED BY LPC&
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BEYER BLINDER BELLE PHASE 1 PROPOSAL BEYER BLINDER BELLE AMENDED PHASE 1 PROPOSAL EXISTING CONDITION
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EXISTING PHASE ONE
• All galleries closed since Superstorm Sandy in 2012 • Open galleries ASAP / !x mechanical systems • Galleries are entirely historic and small-scale (21) • Consolidate historic footprint • Mid-block entry – poor visibility and identity • Move entrance to corner of South and Fulton
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©2020 SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL SOUTH STREET SEAPORT / 34 HOWARD HUGHES CORP. PROPOSED SOUTH STREET ELEVATION
PROPOSED RESTORATION
• Replace cracked, spalled bricks in kind • Brownstown dutchman repairs • Granite dutchman repairs • Retool bluestone, dutchman repairs at base • Remove disused fasteners • Remove and repoint existing mortar and tooling to match historic where needed • Replace broken or missing slate in kind • Refurbish existing historic windows • Repair existing historic shutters, new shutters where missing • Recreate historic wood storefront 91 92 93
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New cresting to match historic