Cary Building (New York City)

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Location105–107 Chambers St., Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates 40°42′55″N74°00′30″W / 40.71528°N 74.00833°W / 40.71528; -74.00833 Coordinates: 40°42′55″N74°00′30″W / 40.71528°N 74.00833°W / 40.71528; -74.00833
Built1856-57
Architect King & Kellum
Daniel D. Badger
Architectural style Italian Renaissance revival
NRHP reference No. 83001719
NYCL No.1224
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 15, 1983 [1]
Designated NYCLAugust 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]

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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." [3]

In 1973, the artist Knox Martin was commissioned to create a 280-foot canopy [5] that wrapped around the building. Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in The New York Times: "...credited Knox Martin with the graphics, including the supersign on the building's side and the continuous, brightly patterned abstract awning sheltering the shops. It is a fine example of combining new with old for practicality, continuity and art." [6]

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.

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Notes

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Gayle, Margot. Cast-Iron Architecture in New York, 1974.
  3. 1 2 Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes: The 1857 Cast-Iron Cary Building at 105 Chambers Street; Facades Meant to be Seen, a Brick Wall that Wasn't", The New York Times (16 July 2000) accessed 30 January 2011.
  4. 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
  5. Maquette for the Wrap-Around Canopy of a Building on Chambers Street, Manhattan
  6. Huxtable, Ada Louise. "Construction in the Capital", The New York Times (9 June 1974)