26 Broadway
- Architect
- Carrère and Hastings
- Year
- 1928
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
26 Broadway, also known as the Standard Oil Building or Socony-Vacuum Building, is a 31-story, 520-foot office building beside Bowling Green in the Financial District, designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings with Shreve, Lamb & Blake. Built in 1884-1885 as the headquarters of Standard Oil, then one of the largest oil companies in the United States, it was expanded to its current size between 1921 and 1928.
the building
Pentagonal site, stepped tower. The building sits on a pentagonal lot bounded by Broadway, Bowling Green, Beaver Street, and New Street. Its first sixteen stories fill much of the lot with several setbacks and a curved Broadway facade, topped by a twelve-story tower crowned with a stepped pyramid.
40-foot lobby. The ground story contains a 40-foot-tall lobby leading to three banks of elevators, while Standard Oil's executive offices, including a board room, occupied the 21st floor.
the style
Hastings designed the building in the Renaissance Revival style, its stepped pyramid crown and curved Broadway facade distinguishing it on its pentagonal site.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings designed the original building, with Shreve, Lamb & Blake collaborating on the 1921-1928 expansion.
significance
26 Broadway is a New York City Landmark and a contributing property to a National Register of Historic Places district.
nearby
- Cunard Building
- American Bank Note Company Office Building
- Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
- 1 Broadway
- Continental Bank Building
- Adams Express Building