1 Broadway
- Architect
- Edward H. Kendall
- Year
- 1919
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Manhattan, NY
1 Broadway is a 12-story office building at Battery Place and Broadway in the Financial District, built in 1882 as the Queen Anne-style Washington Building. In 1919 the International Mercantile Marine Company bought it for its corporate headquarters and had it extensively remodeled by Edward H. Kendall into the Neoclassical building seen today. It served IMM and its successor United States Lines until 1979, when the shipping firm relocated to New Jersey.
the building
A remade facade. The building started life in 1882 as a Queen Anne office block, but the 1919 remodel for International Mercantile Marine stripped and reworked it into a Neoclassical form, erasing most trace of its Victorian original.
the style
The Neoclassical dress dates entirely from the 1919 alteration, when Edward H. Kendall reworked the older Washington Building for its new owner, the shipping conglomerate International Mercantile Marine Company.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Edward H. Kendall carried out the 1919 Neoclassical remodeling that gave the building its present appearance.
significance
1 Broadway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (designated March 2, 1991) and was named a New York City Landmark in 1995. It is also a contributing building to the Wall Street Historic District, an NRHP district created in 2007.
nearby
- Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
- Cunard Building
- 26 Broadway
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