396 Broadway

also 71 Walker Street | Civic Center | built 1899

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

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1899
Birkmire and Moxley build a ten-story steel-frame office tower on Walker Street
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William H. Birkmire, an architect who also held title to the property together with H.L. Moxley, put up this fireproof office building in 1898-99. It has a narrow 28-foot front on Broadway but runs 175 feet along Walker Street to Cortlandt Alley, faced in brick with limestone and terra cotta in the Renaissance Revival manner. Charles A. Gould bought it soon after completion and kept it until 1927.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1899
Birkmire, author on steel office construction, designs and co-owns 396 Broadway
William Harvey Birkmire, born in Philadelphia, trained under Samuel Sloan and worked for the Jackson Architectural Iron Works and later the Cornell Iron Works before practicing in New York. He became known as an authority on steel construction and published "Skeleton Construction in Buildings" in 1893 and "The Planning and Construction of High Office Buildings" in 1896. This Renaissance Revival tower on Walker Street is among his Tribeca designs.
“Birkmire applied his knowledge of structural techniques to the design of large store and loft buildings; "Skeleton Construction in Buildings" (1893); 396-398 Broadway p. 60…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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