24. New York Evening Post Building
AKA: 75 West Street; 110 Washington Street; Post Towers
Location: 75 West Street
Built: 1926
Architect: Horace Trumbauer
National Register Number: 00001160
Listed: September 22, 2000
Visited: September 7, 2007
Another building with little documentation triumphing its glories: both the maps in the AIA Guide to New York City and the Guide to New York City Landmarks leave west of Greenwich Street largely blank. Wikipedia though makes Horace Trumbauer seem like a high muckety-muck of Philadelphia architecture and "the gilded age," and with this slim evidence, I am seduced into fantasizing this must be the work of an old lion trying his hand at the new thang of 1926, Art Deco. The colorful geometrics at the higher floors, nearly invisible from the ground, give it a touch, a tincture of the "Oriental" exotic where his earlier buildings (from a quick glance) seem deeply-rooted in the great Western canon of architectural styles.
Location: 75 West Street
Built: 1926
Architect: Horace Trumbauer
National Register Number: 00001160
Listed: September 22, 2000
Visited: September 7, 2007
Another building with little documentation triumphing its glories: both the maps in the AIA Guide to New York City and the Guide to New York City Landmarks leave west of Greenwich Street largely blank. Wikipedia though makes Horace Trumbauer seem like a high muckety-muck of Philadelphia architecture and "the gilded age," and with this slim evidence, I am seduced into fantasizing this must be the work of an old lion trying his hand at the new thang of 1926, Art Deco. The colorful geometrics at the higher floors, nearly invisible from the ground, give it a touch, a tincture of the "Oriental" exotic where his earlier buildings (from a quick glance) seem deeply-rooted in the great Western canon of architectural styles.
Labels: Financial District, Horace Trumbauer
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