Home Insurance Plaza

59 Maiden Lane | also 60 John Street, 66 John Street | Financial District | built 1965

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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.

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  1. 1966

    Alfred Easton Poor designs the 44-story Home Insurance Plaza tower

    Alfred Easton Poor designed the 44-story, 630-foot office tower at 59 Maiden Lane, completed in 1966. It stands in the Financial District of Manhattan.

    Source: Wikipedia

  2. 1987

    Kohn Pedersen Fox redesigns the plaza fronting the tower

    Kohn Pedersen Fox redeveloped the plaza at 59 Maiden Lane in 1987. The plaza holds "Liberty," a 75-by-50-foot mural by Julie Harvey showing the Statue of Liberty reflected in a skyscraper's mirrored facade, with scenes of early 19th-century New York emerging around it.

    Source: Wikipedia

  3. 1999

    The New York Foundation for the Arts sponsors Julie Harvey's 75-foot Liberty Mural for 59 Maiden Lane

    In 1999 the New York Foundation for the Arts sponsored a project by artist Julie Harvey, helping to fund her Liberty Mural, a 75-foot public artwork meant to honor Lower Manhattan's historic legacy. The mural is located at 59 Maiden Lane.

    “Harvey received a project sponsorship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 1999 to help fund her "Liberty Mural…”

    Source: Wikipedia

  4. 2001

    September 11

    The Liberty Mural is damaged in the September 11 attacks while Julie Harvey photographs Ground Zero

    On September 11, 2001, the attacks on the World Trade Center damaged Julie Harvey's Liberty Mural at 59 Maiden Lane, along with the contents of her studio. Harvey quickly grabbed her cameras and spent the day photographing Ground Zero and the blocks around it, and her pictures have since been seen around the world.

    Source: Wikipedia

  5. 2025

    October

    AmTrust Realty begins re-cladding Home Insurance Plaza and upgrading the plaza at its base

    Exterior work was underway in October 2025 on the 44-story tower, with MdeAS Architects designing it for AmTrust Realty Corp. The plan replaces every window, covers the 630-foot tower's brick veneer in metal and porcelain panels, repoints brick, repairs masonry cracks and upgrades the plaza. By then most of the plaza was fenced off and its original landscaping and circular fountains were gone. A sign on site gave spring 2027 as the completion date.

    Source: newyorkyimby.com

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