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The Morse Building's corner location allowed it to have two full facades: the southern elevation on Beekman Street and the western elevation on Nassau Street. [16] [17] The design of the Morse Building contrasts with that of the Temple Court Building (now 5 Beekman Street) and Potter Building, from the same architects. [16]
5 Beekman Street is a building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.It is composed of the 10-story, 150-foot-tall (46 m) Temple Court Building and Annex (also known as Temple Court [a]) and a connected 51-story, [b] 687-foot-tall (209 m) condominium tower called the Beekman Residences, which contains 68 residential units.
[1] [4] The Provoost house, which Jones made his seat, stood near the foot of today's 67th Street. [5] After his death the farm was divided into lots among his children. His son James retained the house and its lot. His daughter Sarah, who had married the shipowner and merchant Peter Schermerhorn on April 5, 1804, received Division 1, nearest ...
[5] [22] Groundwater was present 15–18 ft (4.6–5.5 m) below ground level at the site. [33] The weathered mica on the western part of the site could only support 8 short ton/sq ft (78 t/m 2 ). [ 22 ] [ 33 ] Furthermore, the site abutted several adjacent buildings and the New York City Subway 's 53rd Street Tunnel (carrying the E and M trains ...
[5] [6] An apartment building designed by McKim, Mead, and White then occupied the site. [7] One tenant of that building was the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. [8] The current office building opened on July 13, 1964. [9] In 2014, the building's owner, the Stahl Organization, received a $1 billion mortgage loan for the building. [10]
The site is 44 feet (13 m) above groundwater. During the construction of the New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (2 and 3 trains) underneath Beekman Street in 1915, the southern elevation was underpinned using concrete-and-steel tubes sunk to a depth of 56 to 59 feet (17 to 18 m), underneath the groundwater level. [9] [31]
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