120 Wall Street
- Architect
- Ely Jacques Kahn
- Year
- 1931
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
120 Wall Street is a 399-foot, 34-story Art Deco skyscraper designed by Ely Jacques Kahn of Buchman & Kahn and completed in 1930. Greenmal Holding Corporation, formed by Henry Greenberg and David Malzman, bought the site from the American Sugar Company in 1928 and financed the roughly $12,000,000 building with a $4,050,000 construction loan, resting it on a 51-caisson deep foundation. The American Sugar Refining company was its original anchor tenant.
the building
Wedding-cake massing. The tower is tiered on three sides, stepping back in shallow setbacks from a 16-story platform, the classic silhouette produced by New York's post-1916 Zoning Resolution.
Base materials. A five-story limestone base is fronted with red-granite panels framing wide commercial windows at street level.
the style
Kahn's design is a textbook Art Deco skyscraper, with its tiered setbacks and street-level granite-and-limestone base showing the style applied to a zoning-driven form.
More on Art Decothe architect
Ely Jacques Kahn designed the building as part of the firm Buchman & Kahn.
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