New York County Lawyers' Association Building

14 Vesey Street | Tribeca | built 1929

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

  1. 1930

    Cass Gilbert designs a Georgian-style headquarters for the county lawyers' association

    The New York County Lawyers' Association, founded in 1908, bought the site in 1929 and hired Cass Gilbert to design its permanent home. Gilbert, working with his son Cass Gilbert Jr. on the interiors, modeled the four-story limestone building's front on the Georgian rowhouses of London's Lincoln's Inn Fields and based its auditorium on Independence Hall.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1965

    The city designates the building a landmark

    New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 14 Vesey Street a landmark in 1965, protecting Cass Gilbert's limestone facade. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1970

    January

    The lawyers' association hosts hearings on organized crime

    In January 1970, the state's Joint Legislative Committee on Crime held hearings in the building's auditorium, taking testimony from organized-crime figures such as Joseph Colombo and Carlo Gambino. The association had pushed decades earlier for a court test of Prohibition's constitutionality.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 2020

    The lawyers' association leaves its home of ninety years

    The New York County Lawyers' Association vacated 14 Vesey Street in 2020, ending roughly nine decades of continuous use as its headquarters since Cass Gilbert completed the building for the organization in 1930. The Georgian limestone structure, by then a designated landmark, was later sold by the association.

    Source: Wikipedia

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