Battery Maritime Building
- Year
- 1909
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Battery Maritime Building stands at South Ferry on the southern tip of Manhattan, at 10 South Street near Whitehall Street. Designed by the firm Walker and Morris and built from 1906 to 1909, it was constructed as the easternmost section of the partially completed Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal, built to serve ferries traveling to Brooklyn.
the building
Working ferry terminal. The ground story contains three ferry slips still used for excursion trips and ferries to Governors Island, as well as commuter trips to Port Liberté, Jersey City. The upper stories, which once held a large waiting area, now hold the Cipriani South Street event space and the 47-room Casa Cipriani hotel.
Last of its kind. Built with a variety of architectural metals, the Battery Maritime Building is the only Exposition Universelle-style ferry building still operating in Manhattan; the similarly designed westernmost section of the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal no longer stands.
the style
The building was designed in the Beaux-Arts style, giving a working ferry terminal the formal, monumental facade of the Exposition Universelle tradition.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The Battery Maritime Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a New York City Landmark.
nearby
- James Watson House
- Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church
- Fraunces Tavern
- Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
- American Bank Note Company Office Building
- 1 William Street