30 West 44th Street
- Architect
- Tracy and Swartwout
- Year
- 1901
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
30 West 44th Street opened in 1901 as the clubhouse of the Yale Club of New York City, designed by the firm Tracy and Swartwout in the Beaux-Arts style. It has since served as the United States Maritime Building and an Army Reserves Building, and is now home to the Penn Club of New York. The building sits on Clubhouse Row, the run of clubhouses along 44th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and is a New York City designated landmark.
the building
Ornate Beaux-Arts facade. The 44th Street front is faced in brick, Indiana limestone, and terracotta, with rusticated limestone blocks at the first two stories and brick and terracotta above.
Mansard roof and penthouse. An 11th-story mansard roof is topped by a three-story brick-and-limestone penthouse, added when the building was later expanded from 11 to 14 stories in the early 1990s.
Stacked club functions. As the Yale Club's clubhouse, the building held club rooms on the lower floors, bedrooms in the middle stories, and dining rooms up top.
the style
The Beaux-Arts ornament and layered facade materials place the building firmly among the clubhouses of Clubhouse Row, a run of similarly grand houses built for New York's private clubs.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
The building was designed by the firm Tracy and Swartwout.
significance
The building is a New York City designated landmark and has passed through several institutional owners, from the Yale Club to the U.S. Maritime Service, the Army Reserves, and now the Penn Club.
nearby
- Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Hotel Mansfield
- Harvard Club of New York City
- Webster Hotel
- W. R. Grace Building
- Century Association Clubhouse