Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company Building

335 Greenwich Street | also 20 Jay Street | Tribeca | built 1931

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

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1885
Earlier buildings on the site include a grocers' store and two dwellings
Before the 1930s tower, a five-story brick building stood here, built by 1885 and used in the late nineteenth century by the grocers Baker & Clark. Before that, a masonry dwelling stood at No. 335 and a frame dwelling at No. 337 Greenwich Street. The Jay Street part of the site held frame buildings used for manufacturing.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
Cross & Cross design a thirteen-story Art Deco office tower for a bank subsidiary
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In 1930-31 Cross & Cross, a firm noted for commercial work including banks, designed a thirteen-story steel-frame office building at the corner of Greenwich and Jay Streets. Its client was Centrun Corp., a subsidiary of Central Hanover Bank & Trust. The ground floor has a cast-stone base and bronze-alloy doors, and the upper stories are faced in white brick.
“Built for the Centrun Corporation, a subsidiary of the Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company, in 1930-31…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
Central Hanover Bank & Trust occupies the tower for many years, later as Manufacturers Hanover
The bank behind the building occupied it for many years, and its name survives in the remnants of a sign in the brick frieze above the second story. The occupant was later known as Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. Today the building is residential, with offices on the ground floor.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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