287 Broadway Building
- Architect
- John B. Snook
- Year
- 1872
- Style
- Italianate
- City
- Manhattan, NY
287 Broadway is a six-story cast-iron building at the southwest corner of Broadway and Reade Street, designed by John B. Snook in the French Second Empire and Italianate styles and completed in 1872. It served as an office building through the 19th and 20th centuries before conversion to residential use.
the building
Cast-iron facades. 287 Broadway is one of the city's few remaining buildings with cast-iron facades on two streets, decorated with segmental pediments, round-arched windows with keystones, and Ionic and Corinthian columns.
Mansard roof. The sixth story comprises a slate mansard roof with window dormers and copper cresting, capping the building above ground-floor retail and ten apartments on the upper floors.
the style
John B. Snook combined Italianate and French Second Empire detailing, pairing round-arched, column-flanked openings with the mansard roof characteristic of the Second Empire style.
More on Italianatesignificance
287 Broadway is a New York City designated landmark (LP-01649, designated 1989) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Broadway-Chambers Building
- 280 Broadway
- Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building
- Cary Building
- Tweed Courthouse
- Home Life Insurance Company Building