275 Water Street
Financial District | built 1896
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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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- 1896
J. M. Farnsworth designs an eight-story cast-iron commercial building at 275 Water Street
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Architect J. M. Farnsworth designed this eight-story, six-bay building in 1896. Its facade uses cast-iron vertical members and pressed sheet-metal spandrel panels in alternating foliate and geometric patterns, with the most elaborate panel, holding a cartouche, above the eighth floor. A deeply projecting sheet-metal cornice on console brackets tops what the Landmarks Preservation Commission calls an early skyscraper, rising beside the 18th-century Rose house.
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