Cary Building (New York City)
Cary Building | |
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| Location | 105–107 Chambers St., Manhattan, New York City |
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| Coordinates | 40°42′55″N 74°0′30″W / 40.71528°N 74.00833°W |
| Built | 1856-57 |
| Architect | King & Kellum Daniel D. Badger |
| Architectural style | Italian Renaissance revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 83001719 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | September 15, 1983[1] |
| Designated NYCL | August 24, 1982 |
The Cary Building at 105-107 Chambers Street, extending along Church Street to Reade Street, in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1856-1857 and was designed by Gamaliel King and John Kellum ("King & Kellum")[2] in the Italian Renaissance revival style, with the cast-iron facade provided by Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Work. The five-story twin-facaded building was constructed for William H. Cary's Cary, Howard & Sanger, a dry goods firm.[3][4]
Although built as a commercial structure, the Cary Building is now residential. As a result of the widening of Church Street in the 1920s, a 200-foot-long wall of unadorned brick is now exposed on the east side of the building; as Christopher Gray observed in the New York Times, comparing the structure to cast-iron buildings with facades obscured by modern signage, "There is not too little of the Cary Building but too much."
The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1982, and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1] The building was once home to The New York Sun.
References
- Notes
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ Gayle, Margot. Cast-Iron Architecture in New York, 1974.
- ^ Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes: The 1857 Cast-Iron Cary Building at 105 Chambers Street; Facades Meant to be Seen, a Brick Wall that Wasn't", New York Times (16 July 2000) accessed 30 January 2011.
- ^ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1., p.30
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