Haskins & Sells Building
35 West 39th Street | also 37 West 39th Street | Midtown | built 1912
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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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- 1912
Frederick Zobel's 12-story building replaces two four-story houses
Robert Zobel's Brunswick Realty Company hired his brother, architect Frederick C. Zobel, to design the 12-story Renaissance Revival building, completed in 1912. Colorful terra cotta ornament decorates its facade, and the upper floors step back from the third story. It replaced two neighboring four-story houses on the site.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1917
Anti-suffrage groups and the League of Women Voters take space in the building
The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, headed by Josephine Dodge, was a tenant by the mid-1910s, while Eva MacDonald Valesh published her women's rights magazine in the same building. Around 1917 room 305 was leased by the Man Suffrage Association, an organization opposed to Political Suffrage for Women, and the New York City League of Women Voters set up in the building not long afterward.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1920
The accounting firm Haskins & Sells buys the building
The New-York Tribune reported on May 15, 1920 that the accounting firm Haskins & Sells had bought the 12-story building for its own use, with an asking price of $750,000. Charles Waldo Haskins and Elijah W. Sells had formed their partnership in 1886, and the firm was chosen in 1893 to investigate the accounts of the federal government's Executive Department. The firm sold the building about five years later but kept its headquarters there until about 1930.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The 1912 Haskins & Sells Bldg. -- No. 35-37 W. 39th StDaytonian in Manhattan
- The woman who didn’t want women to voteEphemeral New York
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