90 West Street
— Designated Landmark, New York City —
Completed in 1907, the West Street Building was designed by architect Cass Gilbert as a premier office skyscraper for the shipping and railroad industries. The building combines the classical tripartite configuration of base, shaft and capital, common on late nineteenth-century office buildings, with the twentieth-century romantic emphasis on verticality and decorative crowns. With its clustered piers, terra cotta cladding, and gothic detail, including griffin figures and a foliate cornice with gargoyles, the West Street Building serves as a precursor to Gilbert's masterpiece, the Woolworth Building. On September 11th, 2001, the West Street Building was severely damaged by fire and falling debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers. After extensive repairs, the building re-opened in 2005 as a residential apartment building.| HM Number | HM17XH |
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| Tags | |
| Year Placed | 2010 |
| Placed By | New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 8:02am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18T E 583245 N 4507017 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 40.70986667, -74.01450000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 42.592', W 74° 0.87' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 42' 35.52" N, 74° 0' 52.20" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 212, 646 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 75 Albany St, New York NY 10006, US |
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