Everett Building

200 Park Avenue South | also 45 East 17th Street | Flatiron | built 1908

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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. 1908

    December

    The Everett Building replaces the old Everett House hotel at Union Square

    Century Realty Co. built this 16-story steel-frame office tower in about four months, completing it in December 1908 on the site of the Everett House, a hotel that had stood since 1853. Architects Goldwin Starrett and Van Vleck faced the building almost entirely in terra cotta, among the first structures in the city to use the material as a primary facade finish rather than mere ornament.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1910

    Textile merchants fill the Everett Building's office floors

    Within two years of opening, the Everett Building was fully leased to firms serving the garment trade, including the silk house William Skinner & Sons, rug importer A. E. Kazan & Co., and the American Association of Woolen and Worsted Manufacturers. The building's superintendent reported in 1910 that only two tenants had changed in a year, with vacancies filled within four hours.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1988

    September 6

    The city designates the Everett Building a landmark

    The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Everett Building an individual New York City landmark on September 6, 1988, citing its terra cotta cladding as one of the first uses of the material as an entire tower's primary facade rather than mere ornament. The commission also pointed to the grid-like exterior of the building's midsection as an example of the Chicago School's emphasis on expressing a building's structural frame.

    Source: Wikipedia

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