359 Broadway
359 Broadway is a building on the west side of Broadway between Leonard and Franklin Streets in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1852 and was designed by the firm of Field & Correja in the Italianate style.[2]
| 359 Broadway | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| Location | Manhattan, New York City |
| Address | 359 Broadway |
| Coordinates | 40.71736°N 74.00412°W |
| Completed | 1852 |
| Height | 55.38 ft (16.88 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 5 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Field & Correja |
| Designated | October 16, 1990 |
| Reference no. | 1758 |
| References | |
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The top three floors of the building were used by pioneering photographer Mathew Brady as a portrait studio from 1853 to 1859,[2] where he photographed many famous Americans. On the south side of the building a faded painted sign for Mathew Brady's Studio could once be seen by pedestrians on Broadway, but this was painted over before 1990.
The building was purchased by brothers Mark Tennenbaum and Emil Tanner and their brother-in-law Leo Beller in 1943. [3] The partners operated a textile wholesale business from which they retired in the early 1970s, and the building was subsequently sold.
The building was made a New York City designated landmark in 1990, an action which was confirmed in 1992 after a long battle between the city and its owner. Justice Karla Moskowitz of the New York State Supreme Court decided in April that it was "clear that the building was considered from the first on architectural as well as historical grounds." The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission had argued for the building's preservation, both because of its famous tenant – Brady – and the fact that each of the building's five floors had received a distinctive window treatment, thus indicating that it was an architecturally significant structure and not merely a utilitarian structure.[4]
References
- "359 Broadway". Emporis. Archived from the original on August 15, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
- New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1.
- Register of the City of New York Liber 2638 of Mortgages. City of New York. p. 45.
- "POSTINGS: Landmark Dispute; Brady's Broadway Studio". The New York Times. May 10, 1992. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
External links
Media related to 359 Broadway at Wikimedia Commons- "359 Broadway Building" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. October 16, 1990. Retrieved August 22, 2020.