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Bowling Green Offices Building

The Bowling Green Offices Building (also known as the Bowling Green Building, Bowling Green Offices, or 11 Broadway) is an office building located at 11 Broadway, across from Bowling Green park in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The 21-story building, erected between 1895 and 1898, is 272.5 feet (83.1 m) tall.[3]

Bowling Green Offices Building
The building's exterior in 2020
General information
TypeOffice
Architectural styleHellenic Renaissance
Location11 Broadway
Manhattan, New York 10004
Coordinates40°42′19″N 74°00′51″W / 40.70528°N 74.01417°W / 40.70528; -74.01417
Construction started1895
Completed1898
Height
Roof272.5 ft (83 m)
Technical details
Floor count21 (+2 basement)
Design and construction
Architect(s)W. & G. Audsley
DesignatedMay 16, 1995
Reference no.1927[1]
DesignatedFebruary 20, 2007[2]
Part ofWall Street Historic District
Reference no.07000063[2]
References
. Emporis. Archived from the original on February 4, 2020.

The Bowling Green Offices Building was built to a Hellenic Renaissance-style design by W. & G. Audsley. The building's articulation consists of three horizontal sections similar to the components of a column—namely a base, shaft, and capital—and has a facade of granite at its base and white brick on the upper stories. The building contains an interior skeleton of structural steel, several ornamental features on the facade, as well as a floor plan that maximizes natural light exposure.

The Bowling Green Offices Building, erected as a 16-story structure, initially hosted various steamship offices due to Bowling Green's proximity to the New York Harbor, and later hosted law firms and other companies. The Broadway Realty Company, for whom the building was built, owned 11 Broadway for several decades following its completion. Five additional stories were built in 1920–1921. In 1995, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated 11 Broadway as an official city landmark. It is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places district created in 2007.

Description edit

The Bowling Green Offices Building was designed by W. & G. Audsley.[4][5] It is bounded by 1 Broadway to the south, Broadway to the east, Greenwich Street to the west, and the Cunard Building (25 Broadway) to the north. Its alternate addresses are 5-11 Broadway and 5-11 Greenwich Street.[6] The building has a frontage of 161.33 feet (49 m) on Broadway and 151.83 feet (46 m) on Greenwich Street;[7][8][9] the southern boundary of its lot is 170.5 feet (52 m) long and the northern boundary 200.33 feet (61 m) long.[8][9]

Form edit

The original structure was 16 stories[10][a] and was expanded to 21 stories in 1917. These consisted of a full seventeenth story that covered nearly the entire lot, as well as an additional four stories that comprised a smaller tower above the center north section of the lot.[12] This tower has a facade of buff-colored brick and terracotta, with a mansard roof made of copper.[13] There was a penthouse apartment for its resident superintendent.[14]

The building is U-shaped, with the two wings on Broadway and Greenwich Streets surrounding a southward-facing light court. The court abuts a north-facing court within the International Mercantile Marine Company Building,[b] which is also U-shaped.[12][9] The light court measures 110 feet (34 m) from north to south and 60 feet (18 m) from west to east, and is present above the first floor.[9]

Facade edit

The western and eastern facades of the Bowling Green Offices Building are arranged in three sections, consisting of a three-story "base", a "shaft", and a three-story "capital" on top, similar to the components of a column. This was a common setup for facades of buildings that were being erected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[10] The Bowling Green Offices Building's facade is made of white granite—an influence from Neoclassical architecture—as well as white brick and terracotta.[10][16] The facade consists of thirteen vertical bays on Broadway and fourteen on Greenwich Street. The bays are separated by slightly projecting piers, and each floor is separated by slightly recessed horizontal spandrels, creating a grid of windows.[10] The southern facade of the Bowling Green Offices Building is visible above the International Mercantile Marine Company to the south.[12]

Unlike other buildings of that era, which used arcades as a method of articulation for the base, the Bowling Green Offices Building uses anthemia and other Hellenic-style ornamentation, similar to Milwaukee's Layton Art Gallery building and St. Louis's Wainwright Building. The Bowling Green Offices Building greatly resembles the Wainwright Building, except for the colors of the facades.[10] The building is estimated to have over a hundred anthemia on its facade. The Real Estate Record and Guide said in 1897 that the Bowling Green Offices Building had "more anthemia than any other work with which we are acquainted".[17][18] Despite this, the Bowling Green Offices Building's facade has a very little other ornamentation, and the Hellenic ornament is confined to the lower three stories.[10] Audsley wrote that he believed "sculpture should be within easy range of the eye [...] and used sparely in the high portions".[9]

Broadway edit

 
Broadway facade; the projecting outer bays can be seen at left and right

The east-facing Broadway facade is 13 bays wide and 17 stories high and is the building's principal elevation. From the bottom to the top, this elevation consists of a two-story base, a twelve-story shaft, a two-story capital, and a top story that was added during 1920–1921.[12]

The base is made of a white-granite colonnade above a gray-granite water table. The pilasters of the colonnade are carved with decorations such as anthemia and support a detailed entablature with the carved words bowling green offices; behind the colonnade can be seen small segments of rusticated wall. The center bay contains a stoop made of gray granite. The outermost three architectural bays comprise slightly projecting pavilions, and there are detailed entrance surrounds around the first-floor openings of the pavilions.[12] The base also contains bronze door and window openings on the first story and aluminum-framed sash windows on the second stories. There are cornices above the second and third stories.[13]

The third story serves as a "transition" story; the center seven bays feature half-columns and the outer six bays feature rectangular piers. The following eleven stories contain unadorned vertical piers and horizontal molded spandrels above each story. The window openings are framed by short sections of rusticated wall. The tops of the 13th and 14th stories also contain cornices.[13]

The 15th and 16th stories contain vertical piers that correspond to the design of the base, as well as aluminum-framed sash windows. The top of the 16th story contains a large cornice with a carved frieze. The 17th story has a facade of buff brick, window openings with double-hung windows, and a cornice of brick and white terracotta.[13]

Other facades edit

The west-facing Greenwich Street facade, similar to the Broadway facade, is divided into an elaborate base, a simple shaft, and a more detailed capital topped by the brick-faced 17th story. It contains less elaborate features than the Broadway facade: for instance, there are no projecting pavilions flanking this side. The Greenwich Street facade is 18 stories high, with a full basement faced with brick and granite, since it is at a lower terrain elevation than Broadway. There is a double-width entrance portico on the northern part of the facade, as well as a freight entrance nearby; both contain carved overhead plaques above. Unlike on the Broadway side, the vertical piers are faced with brick. The 15th and 16th stories contain an oriel window, and the 17th story is a mansard roof made of copper.[13]

The south facade is broken up into western and eastern wings. Both sections are mostly blocked by 1 Broadway, and only the 13th through 17th stories are visible. The 13th through 16th stories consist of a white wall while the 17th story is a buff brick wall.[13]

The north facade is mostly blocked by the Cunard Building; the visible section consists of a brick wall with windows. It is topped by a four-story tower, which is visible from the building's other three sides.[13]

Features edit

The Bowling Green Offices Building contains a steel skeleton,[10][19] with steel columns placed inside alternating vertical piers.[10] The structure used over 5,000 short tons (4,500 long tons; 4,500 t) of steel.[19] The building's firefighting system used standpipes and compressed-air drums, rather than the water towers used on many contemporary buildings. The standpipes could maintain a pressure of 200 pounds per square inch (1,400 kPa), which would allow 160 U.S. gallons (610 L) of water per minute to be projected 66 feet (20 m) in a 0.75-inch (19 mm) stream. The firefighting system, which could also feed water to fire engines if necessary, was praised by the New York City Fire Commissioner.[20]

The entrance foyer and main corridor contain a marble floor, while a stained-glass mural dating from the building's construction is mounted on the walls of the corridor.[20] When built, the Bowling Green Offices Building included 16 elevators.[21] Of these, eight were clustered in the lobby in the northern portion of the building. Another elevator on the Greenwich Street side could be used by freight or passengers and could support loads of up to 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg).[22]

History edit

The site of the Bowling Green Offices Building was occupied by Dutch houses after the colony of New Amsterdam was founded in the 17th century.[23] The Atlantic Garden House (Burns' Coffee House) had previously occupied the site of 11 Broadway by the 19th century,[4][24][25] and had occupied the site since at least the 18th century.[26] Later, one of the New York and Harlem Railroad's freight depots was located at the site.[4]

Construction edit

 
Seen in 1919, prior to addition of the top five floors

The Bowling Green Offices Building's site was owned by lawyer Joseph F. Stier, who sold the land in June 1895[4][27][11] to Stacy C. Richmond.[4][28] The next month, the then-new Broadway Realty Company submitted plans for the site to the New York City Department of Buildings. The company was led by five men and had a board of directors that included Stier and Richmond, as well as philanthropist Spencer Trask,[4] who, being the largest stakeholder in the building, would maintain a suite on the top floor for several years.[29][5]

The precise details of how Audsley became involved in the project is not clear, though he may have been hired through association with George Foster Peabody, who was Trask's principal partner.[9] Records from McKim, Mead & White allude to the possibility that an architectural competition may have been organized.[11] Construction of the original structure, which was 16 stories and cost $1.8 million, started in October 1895.[10] The building was completed in two sections: the Broadway side was ready for use in mid-1896,[30] while the rest of the building was completed in November 1898.[10] According to one source, the Bowling Green Offices Building was built "by British interests" with funding from Queen Victoria.[31] Original plans called for a tower to be built atop the rest of the building, but the tower plans were not carried out.[11]

Use edit

Early tenants edit

At the time of its opening, the Bowling Green Offices Building was the largest building on Bowling Green.[12][c] A promotional brochure for the Bowling Green Offices Building advertised its fireproof material; electricity;[d] proximity to the Ninth Avenue elevated and the then-under-construction subway; and elevators to the restaurant and apartments on the upper floors.[34][30] Electricity, heating, and janitor service were given to potential tenants for free.[30] A 1900 issue of the Real Estate Record and Guide quoted the elevators as carrying 18,000 people per day, while the building had an average of 6,000 people during peak work hours.[35] Profits from the Bowling Green Offices Building went toward funding Yaddo, the artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, that had been founded by Trask.[36]

The Broadway Realty Company filed a lawsuit after the New York City Department of Taxes raised the building's valuation from $1.5 million in 1898 to $2 million in 1899. The Department of Taxes ruled that the assessment was justified, but the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court overruled the decision.[37] In 1903, the New-York Tribune reported that, when Trask's automobile driver was arrested, Trask had offered the $1 million Bowling Green Offices Building to cover his driver's $500 bail amount.[38] During the 1910s, there were two incidents involving elevators at 11 Broadway. In 1915, seven elevators dropped down their shafts with a combined 30 people in the cabs, though no one was hurt because of safety systems that slowed down the elevators at the bottom.[39] The next year, a man was hurt when four elevator cabs dropped.[40]

Expansion and later use edit

Ludlow and Peabody made numerous major modifications in the early 20th century. The firm redesigned the staircases on the Broadway side in 1912–1913 by moving the front steps inward and removing or reconfiguring part of the facade. A few years later, the Broadway Realty Company planned to add five more stories at the top of the building to designs by Ludlow and Peabody, but due to steel shortages caused by World War I, the work was not completed until 1919–1920.[12][16][11] Building plans in 1938 indicate there was a restaurant, likely facing Greenwich Street, and a photo from the same year indicated that storefronts had been added on Broadway to either side of the center stoop.[12]

The building was sold to Chester W. Hansen's real-estate syndicate in 1926 as part of a $9 million transaction. This was the first ownership change since the building's opening.[7][41] However, the LPC stated that Broadway Realty continued to own the building until 1978, or at least the land beneath it,[4] citing the company's Restatement of Certificate of Incorporation filed that year.[42] According to a former director of Yaddo, the community held the controlling interest in the Bowling Green Offices Building until 1976, as opposed to outright ownership.[43] By the 1930s, fewer tenants were occupying the Bowling Green Offices Building because of the construction of new office buildings in Midtown Manhattan.[36]

In 1995, the Bowling Green Offices Building and several other buildings on Bowling Green[e] were formally designated as New York City landmarks.[44][1] In 2007, the building was designated as a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District,[45] a National Register of Historic Places district.[2] As of 2020, 11 Broadway is owned by Braun Management.[46]

Tenants edit

 
Subway restaurant and bus stop outside the Bowling Green Offices

The Bowling Green Offices Building's previous tenants have included bankers, lawyers, utility companies, engineers, naval architects, and ship companies.[12][47] As originally built, it included 512 offices.[48][35] These were used by several companies involved in the steamship and shipping industries, such as steamship lines, shipbuilders, ship suppliers, and freight forwarders.[12][48][49][50] The steamship companies included the White Star Line, which owned the RMS Titanic;[7] the American Line; and the American Scantic Line.[12] Additionally, the Shipping and Industrial Sound Money Association of the Port of New York opened offices in the building in 1900,[51] and the Erie Railroad also had offices in the building in the early 20th century.[52] Other tenants included the United States Department of the Navy's Supervisor of Shipbuilding, as well as the Merchant Marine Committee of the Whole.[12]

By 1926, tenants included Tidewater Oil, industrial company Ingersoll-Rand, bankers Henry Clews & Company, lawyer Max Steuer, and steamship line Moore-McCormack.[7] Later in the 20th century, space in the Bowling Green Offices Building was taken up by Ivan Boesky, a stock trader implicated in insider trading,[47] as well as the technology company IBM.[53]

In the 21st century, tenants include or have included Hill West Architects,[46][54][55] SogoTrade,[46][56] the Flatiron School,[46][57] Allmenus, and Universal Studios.[46] The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has an office on the 11 Greenwich Street side of the building.[58]

Critical reception edit

The Bowling Green Offices Building received relatively little media coverage upon its completion. Although architectural writers Sarah Landau and Carl Condit wrote in 1996 that the Bowling Green Offices was "a major work of the [1890s] in both design and size", it was ignored "perhaps because it was completed in a boom building period or because its 'Hellenic Renaissance' style was considered so peculiar".[5]

A writer for the Real Estate Record and Guide lambasted the design, saying that it "is quite too conspicuous to be ignored". The reviewer continued: "If the architects had been less solicitous for novelty and had abstained from trying to produce 'an order practically unique', their building would have been much better".[18] Another critic said that the design had been intended to "boldly admit and even [...] accentuate height".[9] A 1998 letter to the editor, published in The New York Times, said that 11 Broadway's design was "for those who wish to enjoy the architecture of" Scottish architect Alexander Thomson. The letter described 11 Broadway's base as "a literal copy" of Thomson's designs.[59]

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The building rose 17 stories above Greenwich Street and 16+34 stories on Broadway.[11]
  2. ^ In its report about the Bowling Green Offices Building, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission refers to this structure as the "Washington Building".[12] The Washington Building was remodeled into the International Mercantile Marine Company Building in 1919–1921 according to another LPC report.[15]
  3. ^ The New York Produce Exchange had a larger lot area but only consisted of three stories, and the narrow Hudson Building (32-34 Broadway) had 17 stories but was very narrow.[12][16]
  4. ^ An advertisement for the New York Edison Company claimed that electric service did not start until 1907.[32] The LPC did not find a satisfactory explanation for these conflicting dates.[33]
  5. ^ Namely the exterior and first floor interior of the Cunard Building; 26 Broadway; and the International Mercantile Marine Company Building[44]

Citations edit

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  2. ^ a b c "National Register of Historic Places 2007 Weekly Lists" (PDF). National Park Service. 2007. p. 65. (PDF) from the original on December 28, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  3. ^ . Emporis. Archived from the original on February 4, 2020. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Landmarks Preservation Commission 1995, p. 2.
  5. ^ a b c Landau & Condit 1996, p. 242.
  6. ^ Landmarks Preservation Commission 1995, p. 1.
  7. ^ a b c d "Bowling Green Skyscraper in Reported Deal: Syndicate Said to Have Obtained Option of Purchase on the Twenty-two-Story Building at 11 Broadway". New York Herald Tribune. December 16, 1926. p. 40. from the original on February 6, 2020. Retrieved February 2, 2020 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ a b Court of Appeals 1919, pp. 89–90
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Landau & Condit 1996, p. 244.
  10. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Landmarks Preservation Commission 1995, p. 3.
  11. ^ a b c d e Landau & Condit 1996, p. 426.
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Landmarks Preservation Commission 1995, p. 4.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g Landmarks Preservation Commission 1995, p. 5.
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  21. ^ "Changes In Broadway; Big Buildings from the Battery to Forty-Second Street. Where Once Were Small, Low-Browed Brick and Frame Buildings Now Stand the Lofty Walls of the Modern Business Structure -- The Washington Building, Erected by Cyrns Field in 1884, the Pioneer of the "Sky Scrapers."". The New York Times. July 5, 1896. ISSN 0362-4331. from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
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  34. ^ "Bowling Green Offices" (Spencer Trask & Co., 1896), cited in Landmarks Preservation Commission 1995, p. 4.
  35. ^ a b "Towns Under a Single Roof" (PDF). The Real Estate Record: Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide. Vol. 66, no. 1702. October 27, 1900. p. 532. (PDF) from the original on September 18, 2020. Retrieved July 22, 2020 – via columbia.edu.
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2020 The Bowling Green Offices Building was built to a Hellenic Renaissance style design by W amp G Audsley The building s articulation consists of three horizontal sections similar to the components of a column namely a base shaft and capital and has a facade of granite at its base and white brick on the upper stories The building contains an interior skeleton of structural steel several ornamental features on the facade as well as a floor plan that maximizes natural light exposure The Bowling Green Offices Building erected as a 16 story structure initially hosted various steamship offices due to Bowling Green s proximity to the New York Harbor and later hosted law firms and other companies The Broadway Realty Company for whom the building was built owned 11 Broadway for several decades following its completion Five additional stories were built in 1920 1921 In 1995 the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission LPC designated 11 Broadway as an official city landmark It is also a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District a National Register of Historic Places district created in 2007 Contents 1 Description 1 1 Form 1 2 Facade 1 2 1 Broadway 1 2 2 Other facades 1 3 Features 2 History 2 1 Construction 2 2 Use 2 2 1 Early tenants 2 2 2 Expansion and later use 3 Tenants 4 Critical reception 5 See also 6 References 6 1 Notes 6 2 Citations 6 3 Sources 7 External linksDescription editThe Bowling Green Offices Building was designed by W amp G Audsley 4 5 It is bounded by 1 Broadway to the south Broadway to the east Greenwich Street to the west and the Cunard Building 25 Broadway to the north Its alternate addresses are 5 11 Broadway and 5 11 Greenwich Street 6 The building has a frontage of 161 33 feet 49 m on Broadway and 151 83 feet 46 m on Greenwich Street 7 8 9 the southern boundary of its lot is 170 5 feet 52 m long and the northern boundary 200 33 feet 61 m long 8 9 Form edit The original structure was 16 stories 10 a and was expanded to 21 stories in 1917 These consisted of a full seventeenth story that covered nearly the entire lot as well as an additional four stories that comprised a smaller tower above the center north section of the lot 12 This tower has a facade of buff colored brick and terracotta with a mansard roof made of copper 13 There was a penthouse apartment for its resident superintendent 14 The building is U shaped with the two wings on Broadway and Greenwich Streets surrounding a southward facing light court The court abuts a north facing court within the International Mercantile Marine Company Building b which is also U shaped 12 9 The light court measures 110 feet 34 m from north to south and 60 feet 18 m from west to east and is present above the first floor 9 Facade edit The western and eastern facades of the Bowling Green Offices Building are arranged in three sections consisting of a three story base a shaft and a three story capital on top similar to the components of a column This was a common setup for facades of buildings that were being erected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries 10 The Bowling Green Offices Building s facade is made of white granite an influence from Neoclassical architecture as well as white brick and terracotta 10 16 The facade consists of thirteen vertical bays on Broadway and fourteen on Greenwich Street The bays are separated by slightly projecting piers and each floor is separated by slightly recessed horizontal spandrels creating a grid of windows 10 The southern facade of the Bowling Green Offices Building is visible above the International Mercantile Marine Company to the south 12 Unlike other buildings of that era which used arcades as a method of articulation for the base the Bowling Green Offices Building uses anthemia and other Hellenic style ornamentation similar to Milwaukee s Layton Art Gallery building and St Louis s Wainwright Building The Bowling Green Offices Building greatly resembles the Wainwright Building except for the colors of the facades 10 The building is estimated to have over a hundred anthemia on its facade The Real Estate Record and Guide said in 1897 that the Bowling Green Offices Building had more anthemia than any other work with which we are acquainted 17 18 Despite this the Bowling Green Offices Building s facade has a very little other ornamentation and the Hellenic ornament is confined to the lower three stories 10 Audsley wrote that he believed sculpture should be within easy range of the eye and used sparely in the high portions 9 Broadway edit nbsp Broadway facade the projecting outer bays can be seen at left and right The east facing Broadway facade is 13 bays wide and 17 stories high and is the building s principal elevation From the bottom to the top this elevation consists of a two story base a twelve story shaft a two story capital and a top story that was added during 1920 1921 12 The base is made of a white granite colonnade above a gray granite water table The pilasters of the colonnade are carved with decorations such as anthemia and support a detailed entablature with the carved words bowling green offices behind the colonnade can be seen small segments of rusticated wall The center bay contains a stoop made of gray granite The outermost three architectural bays comprise slightly projecting pavilions and there are detailed entrance surrounds around the first floor openings of the pavilions 12 The base also contains bronze door and window openings on the first story and aluminum framed sash windows on the second stories There are cornices above the second and third stories 13 The third story serves as a transition story the center seven bays feature half columns and the outer six bays feature rectangular piers The following eleven stories contain unadorned vertical piers and horizontal molded spandrels above each story The window openings are framed by short sections of rusticated wall The tops of the 13th and 14th stories also contain cornices 13 The 15th and 16th stories contain vertical piers that correspond to the design of the base as well as aluminum framed sash windows The top of the 16th story contains a large cornice with a carved frieze The 17th story has a facade of buff brick window openings with double hung windows and a cornice of brick and white terracotta 13 Other facades edit The west facing Greenwich Street facade similar to the Broadway facade is divided into an elaborate base a simple shaft and a more detailed capital topped by the brick faced 17th story It contains less elaborate features than the Broadway facade for instance there are no projecting pavilions flanking this side The Greenwich Street facade is 18 stories high with a full basement faced with brick and granite since it is at a lower terrain elevation than Broadway There is a double width entrance portico on the northern part of the facade as well as a freight entrance nearby both contain carved overhead plaques above Unlike on the Broadway side the vertical piers are faced with brick The 15th and 16th stories contain an oriel window and the 17th story is a mansard roof made of copper 13 The south facade is broken up into western and eastern wings Both sections are mostly blocked by 1 Broadway and only the 13th through 17th stories are visible The 13th through 16th stories consist of a white wall while the 17th story is a buff brick wall 13 The north facade is mostly blocked by the Cunard Building the visible section consists of a brick wall with windows It is topped by a four story tower which is visible from the building s other three sides 13 Features edit The Bowling Green Offices Building contains a steel skeleton 10 19 with steel columns placed inside alternating vertical piers 10 The structure used over 5 000 short tons 4 500 long tons 4 500 t of steel 19 The building s firefighting system used standpipes and compressed air drums rather than the water towers used on many contemporary buildings The standpipes could maintain a pressure of 200 pounds per square inch 1 400 kPa which would allow 160 U S gallons 610 L of water per minute to be projected 66 feet 20 m in a 0 75 inch 19 mm stream The firefighting system which could also feed water to fire engines if necessary was praised by the New York City Fire Commissioner 20 The entrance foyer and main corridor contain a marble floor while a stained glass mural dating from the building s construction is mounted on the walls of the corridor 20 When built the Bowling Green Offices Building included 16 elevators 21 Of these eight were clustered in the lobby in the northern portion of the building Another elevator on the Greenwich Street side could be used by freight or passengers and could support loads of up to 7 000 pounds 3 200 kg 22 History editThe site of the Bowling Green Offices Building was occupied by Dutch houses after the colony of New Amsterdam was founded in the 17th century 23 The Atlantic Garden House Burns Coffee House had previously occupied the site of 11 Broadway by the 19th century 4 24 25 and had occupied the site since at least the 18th century 26 Later one of the New York and Harlem Railroad s freight depots was located at the site 4 Construction edit nbsp Seen in 1919 prior to addition of the top five floors The Bowling Green Offices Building s site was owned by lawyer Joseph F Stier who sold the land in June 1895 4 27 11 to Stacy C Richmond 4 28 The next month the then new Broadway Realty Company submitted plans for the site to the New York City Department of Buildings The company was led by five men and had a board of directors that included Stier and Richmond as well as philanthropist Spencer Trask 4 who being the largest stakeholder in the building would maintain a suite on the top floor for several years 29 5 The precise details of how Audsley became involved in the project is not clear though he may have been hired through association with George Foster Peabody who was Trask s principal partner 9 Records from McKim Mead amp White allude to the possibility that an architectural competition may have been organized 11 Construction of the original structure which was 16 stories and cost 1 8 million started in October 1895 10 The building was completed in two sections the Broadway side was ready for use in mid 1896 30 while the rest of the building was completed in November 1898 10 According to one source the Bowling Green Offices Building was built by British interests with funding from Queen Victoria 31 Original plans called for a tower to be built atop the rest of the building but the tower plans were not carried out 11 Use edit Early tenants edit At the time of its opening the Bowling Green Offices Building was the largest building on Bowling Green 12 c A promotional brochure for the Bowling Green Offices Building advertised its fireproof material electricity d proximity to the Ninth Avenue elevated and the then under construction subway and elevators to the restaurant and apartments on the upper floors 34 30 Electricity heating and janitor service were given to potential tenants for free 30 A 1900 issue of the Real Estate Record and Guide quoted the elevators as carrying 18 000 people per day while the building had an average of 6 000 people during peak work hours 35 Profits from the Bowling Green Offices Building went toward funding Yaddo the artists community in Saratoga Springs New York that had been founded by Trask 36 The Broadway Realty Company filed a lawsuit after the New York City Department of Taxes raised the building s valuation from 1 5 million in 1898 to 2 million in 1899 The Department of Taxes ruled that the assessment was justified but the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court overruled the decision 37 In 1903 the New York Tribune reported that when Trask s automobile driver was arrested Trask had offered the 1 million Bowling Green Offices Building to cover his driver s 500 bail amount 38 During the 1910s there were two incidents involving elevators at 11 Broadway In 1915 seven elevators dropped down their shafts with a combined 30 people in the cabs though no one was hurt because of safety systems that slowed down the elevators at the bottom 39 The next year a man was hurt when four elevator cabs dropped 40 Expansion and later use edit Ludlow and Peabody made numerous major modifications in the early 20th century The firm redesigned the staircases on the Broadway side in 1912 1913 by moving the front steps inward and removing or reconfiguring part of the facade A few years later the Broadway Realty Company planned to add five more stories at the top of the building to designs by Ludlow and Peabody but due to steel shortages caused by World War I the work was not completed until 1919 1920 12 16 11 Building plans in 1938 indicate there was a restaurant likely facing Greenwich Street and a photo from the same year indicated that storefronts had been added on Broadway to either side of the center stoop 12 The building was sold to Chester W Hansen s real estate syndicate in 1926 as part of a 9 million transaction This was the first ownership change since the building s opening 7 41 However the LPC stated that Broadway Realty continued to own the building until 1978 or at least the land beneath it 4 citing the company s Restatement of Certificate of Incorporation filed that year 42 According to a former director of Yaddo the community held the controlling interest in the Bowling Green Offices Building until 1976 as opposed to outright ownership 43 By the 1930s fewer tenants were occupying the Bowling Green Offices Building because of the construction of new office buildings in Midtown Manhattan 36 In 1995 the Bowling Green Offices Building and several other buildings on Bowling Green e were formally designated as New York City landmarks 44 1 In 2007 the building was designated as a contributing property to the Wall Street Historic District 45 a National Register of Historic Places district 2 As of 2020 update 11 Broadway is owned by Braun Management 46 Tenants edit nbsp Subway restaurant and bus stop outside the Bowling Green Offices The Bowling Green Offices Building s previous tenants have included bankers lawyers utility companies engineers naval architects and ship companies 12 47 As originally built it included 512 offices 48 35 These were used by several companies involved in the steamship and shipping industries such as steamship lines shipbuilders ship suppliers and freight forwarders 12 48 49 50 The steamship companies included the White Star Line which owned the RMS Titanic 7 the American Line and the American Scantic Line 12 Additionally the Shipping and Industrial Sound Money Association of the Port of New York opened offices in the building in 1900 51 and the Erie Railroad also had offices in the building in the early 20th century 52 Other tenants included the United States Department of the Navy s Supervisor of Shipbuilding as well as the Merchant Marine Committee of the Whole 12 By 1926 tenants included Tidewater Oil industrial company Ingersoll Rand bankers Henry Clews amp Company lawyer Max Steuer and steamship line Moore McCormack 7 Later in the 20th century space in the Bowling Green Offices Building was taken up by Ivan Boesky a stock trader implicated in insider trading 47 as well as the technology company IBM 53 In the 21st century tenants include or have included Hill West Architects 46 54 55 SogoTrade 46 56 the Flatiron School 46 57 Allmenus and Universal Studios 46 The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has an office on the 11 Greenwich Street side of the building 58 Critical reception editThe Bowling Green Offices Building received relatively little media coverage upon its completion Although architectural writers Sarah Landau and Carl Condit wrote in 1996 that the Bowling Green Offices was a major work of the 1890s in both design and size it was ignored perhaps because it was completed in a boom building period or because its Hellenic Renaissance style was considered so peculiar 5 A writer for the Real Estate Record and Guide lambasted the design saying that it is quite too conspicuous to be ignored The reviewer continued If the architects had been less solicitous for novelty and had abstained from trying to produce an order practically unique their building would have been much better 18 Another critic said that the design had been intended to boldly admit and even accentuate height 9 A 1998 letter to the editor published in The New York Times said that 11 Broadway s design was for those who wish to enjoy the architecture of Scottish architect Alexander Thomson The letter described 11 Broadway s base as a literal copy of Thomson s designs 59 See also edit nbsp Architecture portal nbsp New York City portal List of buildings and structures on Broadway in Manhattan List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan below 14th StreetReferences editNotes edit The building rose 17 stories above Greenwich Street and 16 3 4 stories on Broadway 11 In its report about the Bowling Green Offices Building the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission refers to this structure as the Washington Building 12 The Washington Building was remodeled into the International Mercantile Marine Company Building in 1919 1921 according to another LPC report 15 The New York Produce Exchange had a larger lot area but only consisted of three stories and the narrow Hudson Building 32 34 Broadway had 17 stories but was very narrow 12 16 An advertisement for the New York Edison Company claimed that electric service did not start until 1907 32 The LPC did not find a satisfactory explanation for these conflicting dates 33 Namely the exterior and first floor interior of the Cunard Building 26 Broadway and the International Mercantile Marine Company Building 44 Citations edit a b Landmarks Preservation Commission 1995 p 1 a b c National Register of Historic Places 2007 Weekly Lists PDF National Park Service 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