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The Trinity Building, designed by Francis H. Kimball and built in 1905, with an addition of 1907, [1]: 1 and Kimball's United States Realty Building of 1907, [2]: 1 located respectively at 111 and 115 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District, are among the first Gothic-inspired skyscrapers in New York, and both are New York City designated landmarks.
The building was the focus of a complex tort in the 1890s over property value loss due to the operation of the Manhattan Elevated Railroad (later IRT Sixth Avenue Line) in front of it. The builder (Western Union) and the defendant (railway) were both controlled by the same group of investors, who were asserted to be in collusion against buyer ...
One of the earliest tenants of the new building was a company managing miniature golf courses and a golf school. [3] Not long after its completion, the Irving Trust began started construction on the Irving Trust Company Building at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway, visible from the Trinity Court Building. The builder commissioned a time ...
Trinity Court Building, also known as Trinity Commons is a structure at 68–76 Trinity Place, between Rector and Albany Streets, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It replaces a building on the site with the same name, constructed in 1927. [1] The 1927 building, in turn, had been erected to replace a structure built ...
The current church building is the third to be constructed for the parish, and was designed by Richard Upjohn in the Gothic Revival style. Trinity's first church was a single-story rectangular structure facing the Hudson River, which was constructed in 1698 and destroyed in the Great New York City Fire of 1776.
In 1885, architects voted Trinity Church as the most important building in the U.S.; Trinity Church is the only building from the original 1885 list still included in the AIA's current top ten list. [citation needed] The building was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 30, 1970. [14]
The Trinity Place facade is about 170 feet (52 m) long, [7] and is 14 stories and 210 feet (64 m) tall. [9] It is designed primarily in the Art Deco style and is divided into seven bays. [7] The facade is made of limestone, and the base is made of granite; this might have served to distinguish it from the neighboring Trinity Court Building to ...
St. Paul's Chapel is a chapel building of Trinity Church, an episcopal parish, located at 209 Broadway, between Fulton Street and Vesey Street, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1766, it is the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan [4] and one of the nation's most well renowned examples of Late Georgian church architecture. [5]