Cary Building
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Location: | 105–107 Chambers St., New York, New York |
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Built: | 1856 |
Architect: | King & Kellum; D. Badger's Architectural Iron W |
Architectural style: | Renaissance, Other |
NRHP Reference#: | 83001719 |
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Added to NRHP: | September 15, 1983[1] |
Designated NYCL: | August 24, 1982 |
The five-storey Cary Building (1856) is a cast-iron fronted building with twin facades on Chambers Street and Reade Street in New York City. The partnership of Gamaliel King and John Kellum was apparently responsible for its design,[2] which was cast in Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Works in Manhattan. The owner was William H. Cary, trading in dry goods as Cary, Howard & Sanger.[3]
The City Landmark was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1] Built as a commercial structure, the Cary Building is now residential. As a result of widening Church Street in the 1920s, a 200-foot-long wall of unadorned brick is now exposed on the east side of the building; as New York architectural historian 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."[4]
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