Cary Building (New York City)

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Cary Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
NYC Landmark
(2012)
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Location	105–107 Chambers St., Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates	40°42′55″N 74°0′30″W / 40.71528°N 74.00833°W / 40.71528; -74.00833Coordinates: 40°42′55″N 74°0′30″W / 40.71528°N 74.00833°W / 40.71528; -74.00833
Built	1856-57
Architect	King & Kellum Daniel D. Badger
Architectural style	Italian Renaissance revival
NRHP Reference #	83001719
Added to NRHP	September 15, 1983^[1]
Designated NYCL	August 24, 1982

The Cary Building at 105-107 Chambers Street, extending along Church Street to Reade Street, in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1856-1857 and was designed by Gamaliel King and John Kellum ("King & Kellum")^[2] in the Italian Renaissance revival style, with the cast-iron facade provided by Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Work. The five-story twin-facaded building was constructed for William H. Cary's Cary, Howard & Sanger, a dry goods firm.^[3]^[4]

Although built as a commercial structure, the Cary Building is now residential. As a result of the widening of Church Street in the 1920s, a 200-foot-long wall of unadorned brick is now exposed on the east side of the building; as Christopher Gray observed in the New York Times, comparing the structure to cast-iron buildings with facades obscured by modern signage, "There is not too little of the Cary Building but too much."

The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1982, and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983.^[1] The building was once home to The New York Sun.

References

Notes

1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Gayle, Margot. Cast-Iron Architecture in New York, 1974.
↑ Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes: The 1857 Cast-Iron Cary Building at 105 Chambers Street; Facades Meant to be Seen, a Brick Wall that Wasn't", New York Times (16 July 2000) accessed 30 January 2011.
↑ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S. (text); Postal, Matthew A. (text) (2009), Postal, Matthew A., ed., Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.), New York: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1 , p.30

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