359 Broadway Building
- Year
- 1852
- Style
- Italianate
- City
- Manhattan, NY
359 Broadway, between Leonard and Franklin Streets in Tribeca, was built in 1852 by the firm of Field & Correja in the Italianate style. Its top three floors served as pioneering photographer Mathew Brady's portrait studio from 1853 to 1859, where he photographed many famous Americans.
the building
Brady's studio. A faded painted sign for Mathew Brady's Studio was once visible on the building's south side, seen by pedestrians on Broadway until it was painted over before 1990.
the style
Field & Correja's Italianate design is characteristic of the commercial buildings that lined Broadway in Tribeca in the 1850s.
More on Italianatesignificance
Made a New York City designated landmark in 1990, a status confirmed in 1992 after a legal battle in which Justice Karla Moskowitz ruled the building was considered a landmark "from the first on architectural as well as historical grounds."
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- 361 Broadway Building
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- New York Life Insurance Company Building
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