Engineers' Club Building
- Architect
- Whitfield & King
- Year
- 1907
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Engineers' Club Building at 32 West 40th Street, on the south edge of Bryant Park, was built in 1907 as the clubhouse of the Engineers' Club, a social organization formed in 1888. Andrew Carnegie helped fund the new clubhouse, offering money for it in 1904.
the building
Neo-Renaissance facade. The facade is divided into three horizontal sections: a base of light stone with a Corinthian-capital colonnade, a seven-story brick shaft with stone quoins, and a top-story double-height loggia beneath a modillioned cornice.
Club interior. The building held 66 bedrooms and meeting rooms for the Engineers' Club and was connected to the adjoining Engineering Societies' Building.
the style
Designed in the neo-Renaissance style by Whitfield & King, the building's colonnaded base and loggia gave the engineers' clubhouse a dignified civic presence facing Bryant Park.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Henry D. Whitfield and Beverly S. King, of the firm Whitfield & King, designed the building.
significance
Designated a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-02429) in 2011 and listed as a contributing property on the National and New York State Registers of Historic Places.
nearby
- Knox Building
- New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
- B. Altman and Company Building
- 500 Fifth Avenue Building
- W. R. Grace Building
- Century Association Clubhouse