New York Evening Post Building
20 Vesey Street | Tribeca | built 1907
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1907
The Evening Post opens its Art Nouveau tower on Vesey Street
Architect Robert D. Kohn files plans in March 1906 for a 13-story limestone tower for the New York Evening Post, completed in April 1907 at a cost of $500,000. Four limestone sculptures depicting the Four Periods of Publicity, two by Kohn's wife Estelle Rumbold Kohn and two by Gutzon Borglum, adorn the facade, and the paper marks the opening with a dinner for its staff on April 13.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1910
The NAACP opens its national headquarters at 20 Vesey Street
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sets up its headquarters inside the Evening Post building in 1910, publishing its magazine The Crisis from offices there. The building briefly becomes a hub of the young civil-rights organization's national operations.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1965
The city landmarks the former Evening Post tower over its owner's objections
New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission designates 20 Vesey Street a city landmark on November 13, 1965, despite opposition from the building's owner. The rare Art Nouveau facade, one of the few examples of the style ever built in Manhattan, becomes one of the commission's early protected buildings.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1980
The Landmarks Preservation Commission moves into the tower it once protected
From 1980 to 1987, New York's own Landmarks Preservation Commission occupies 20 Vesey Street as its headquarters, fifteen years after naming the former Evening Post tower a city landmark. The agency charged with safeguarding the city's historic buildings works for a time from inside one of them.
Source: Wikipedia
Further reading
- Old New York Evening Post BuildingWikipedia
- The Art Nouveau New York Evening Post Building -- No. 20 Vesey StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
- 13 stories of Art Nouveau beauty in ManhattanEphemeral New York
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