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) DD FF EE GG 7 NN CC HH II JJ KK MM LL A BB X 1 B W V AA Z Y U 2 C D T T 3 6 5 Q I H 4 R S T F E K J P G L O N M 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.