E. V. Haughwout Building
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E.V. Haughwout Building
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| Location: | 488-492 Broadway, New York, New York |
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| Coordinates: | 40°43′19″N 73°59′58″W / 40.72194°N 73.99944°WCoordinates: 40°43′19″N 73°59′58″W / 40.72194°N 73.99944°W |
| Built: | 1857 |
| Architect: | J.P. Gaynor |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 73001218[1] |
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| Added to NRHP: | August 28, 1973 |
| Designated NYCL: | November 23, 1965 |
The E.V. Haughwout Building is a five-story, 79-foot (24 m) tall, commercial loft building in the SoHo section of Manhattan, New York City, at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway. Built in 1857 to a design by John P. Gaynor, with cast-iron sections for two street-fronts provided by Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Works,[2] it originally housed Eder V. Haughwout's fashionable emporium, which sold imported cut glass and silverware as well as its own handpainted china and fine chandeliers,[2][3] and which attracted many wealthy clients – including Mary Todd Lincoln.
Architecturally, the building is fairly typical of the period, with cast-iron facades in an arcaded system with two orders of columns that was derived from the Sansovino Library in Venice.[4] However, the building's designers acted progressively by installing the world's first successful passenger elevator on March 23, 1857. It was a hydraulic lift designed for the building by Elisha Graves Otis. It cost $300 and had a speed of .67 feet per second (0.20 m/s)[5]. The original elevator is still in place and is in working condition.
The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1965, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Its facade was restored, and the columns re-painted to their original "Turkish drab" color, in 1995, under the supervision of Joseph Pell Lombardi.[4]
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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 0812931076., p.102
- ^ Burrows, Edwin G. & Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195116348., p.668
- ^ a b New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Postal, Matthew A. (ed. and text); Dolkart, Andrew S. (text). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.) New York:John Wiley and Sons, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1, pp.41-42
- ^ "Otis Elevator Timeline". Otis Elevator. http://www.otisworldwide.com/d31-timeline.html. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
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