DeVinne Press Building
- Architect
- Babb, Cook and Willard
- Year
- 1886
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The DeVinne Press Building went up in 1886 as a printing plant for Theodore Low De Vinne, a typographer and printer who led the De Vinne Press and owned a stake in the project. Babb, Cook and Willard designed it in the Romanesque Revival style, giving an industrial print shop a monumental brick presence rare for the trade. It is both a National Register listing and a New York City Landmark.
the building
A building built for presses. Behind the brick facade, load-bearing walls and cast-iron columns encased in brick piers were engineered specifically to carry the weight of printing presses, with a mostly rectangular, utilitarian interior laid out for production rather than display.
the style
Babb, Cook and Willard concentrated their Romanesque Revival detailing on the two street-facing elevations, using segmental arches, round-arched windows, and horizontal belt courses in brick and terracotta to dress an otherwise plain industrial block.
More on Romanesque Revivalsignificance
The building holds a dual designation as a New York City Landmark and a National Register of Historic Places listing.
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