271 Church Street

90 Franklin Street | also 271 Church Street | Tribeca | built 1931

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1930
Central Hanover's real-estate subsidiary replaces a cast-iron-fronted building with a 17-story tower
The Central Hanover Bank & Trust Company's subsidiary, the Centrun Corporation, had the tower built. The same corporation, with the same architects and builders, also built a comparable Art Deco office tower at 335-337 Greenwich Street. The site had earlier held a five-story building with a cast-iron front, which the new tower replaced.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1931
Cross & Cross design a 17-story Art Deco office tower at Church and Franklin Streets
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The seventeen-story building at the northeast corner of Church and Franklin Streets was completed in 1930-31 to designs by Cross & Cross and built by Marc Eidlitz & Son. Its brick facades are identical on both streets, with nine window bays per floor and chevron-patterned spandrels in the three center bays. The base is limestone, and the Church Street entrance has paired bronze doors with geometric ornament.
“The three center bays have chevron-patterned spandrels and piers with ornamental brickwork, characteristic of the Art Deco style.”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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