Empire Building

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Empire Building
Empire Building
Empire Building (1898)
Basic data
Place: New York City , United States
Construction time : 1897-1898
Renovation: 1997
Status : Built
Architectural style : Beaux-Arts
Architect : Kimball & Thompson
Technical specifications
Height : 89 m
Floors : 21st
Usable area : approx. 28,000 m²

The Empire Building is a 21-story skyscraper in Manhattan , New York City . It is located on Broadway 71. The building has a steel frame construction with a curtain wall. It was planned by Kimball & Thompson in 1895 and built by Marc Eidlitz & Son .

It is one of the earliest high-rise buildings to be built with caissons and is still standing today. Between 1901 and 1976 it housed the headquarters of the United States Steel Corporation . It was converted into an apartment building in 1997. After it was classified as a New York City Landmark by the Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1996 , it was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 .

history

Orlando B. Potter acquired a six-story brownstone office building on Broadway 71 in 1884. Here, in 1891, an assassination attempt on Russell Sage was carried out. After Potter's death in 1894, his heirs commissioned today's building. On April 23, 1919, the United States Steel Corporation, one of the main tenants of space in the building since it was founded in 1901, bought the house from its heirs for about $ 5 million. The company had its headquarters there until 1976. Although the company sold the building in 1973, it still maintained office space until the mid-1980s.

The Empire Building was converted into 237 apartments in 1997 after the World-Wide Group of Manhattan acquired the foreclosed property for around $ 10 million. It is right next to the former American Express Building , across from the American Surety Building and 1 Wall Street .

architecture

The property is 24 meters long on Broadway, 68 meters along Rector Street and the front to Trinity Place is around 15 meters long. The building has a total area of ​​1,302 square meters and a total usable area of ​​around 28,000 square meters. Some parts of the entrance on Broadway extend beyond the property line. On Rector Street, the building adjoins the churchyard of Trinity Church , creating the scenery for the church. This enables an unobstructed view of the building.

The foundation of the building was designed by Charles Sooysmith , who provided a mixture of grids and 23 caissons that were driven seven meters underground.

draft

The building is divided into three different areas, base, middle part and capital, like a column of classical order . The original design called for the base to be clad in terracotta , but the owners then opted for granite . The middle section consists of twelve floors with white, rustic granite slabs. The capital consists of a four-storey Kolonnaden - loggia and a ledge of metal. The basement is a full floor that is free on Rector Street and forms a shop front on Trinity Place. This is due to the different height of the street level in front of and behind the building.

The main entrance on the Broadway side is designed in the manner of a triumphal arch , a large archway is flanked by two smaller ones that lead to the shops on the ground floor.

Changes

The twenty-first floor was designed and added in 1930 by John C. Westervelt. The main entrance to Broadway, the entrance to Trinity Place and the connection to the elevated railway at Trinity Place were redesigned in 1938 by Walker & Gillette in the Art Deco style.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Landmarks Preservation: EMPIRE BUILDING ( English , PDF; 9.6 MB) Landmarks Preservation Commission. June 25, 1996. Archived from the original on November 12, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 15, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nyc.gov
  2. ↑ National Register Information System ( English ) In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. Retrieved October 16, 2015.
  3. ^ Empire Building Bought by US Steel , The New York Times . April 24, 1919, S. Section: Business & Finance, Page 17. Retrieved April 15, 2009. 
  4. ^ A b Rachelle Garbarine: Residential Real Estate; At 100, Skyscraper Becomes Housing , The New York Times . September 12, 1997. Retrieved April 15, 2009. 

Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 26 "  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 47"  W.