Germania Bank Building
- Year
- 1899
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Germania Bank Building at 190 Bowery was built in 1898-99 for the Germania Bank, founded in New York City in 1869, designed by Robert Maynicke in a Renaissance Revival or Beaux-Arts style. It later housed studio residencies for artists including Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Lucine Kaplan, and its ground floor is widely known today as the home of the "Supreme" store.
the building
Granite and steel. The six-story building is brick over steel girders on a concrete basement, with its Bowery and Spring Street facades clad in Maine granite. The rusticated base holds large, deep-set windows topped by rounded arches, while the floors above show banded stonework with paired windows in identical bays, and projecting piers with paneled spandrels on the third through fifth floors.
the style
Robert Maynicke designed the building in a Renaissance Revival or Beaux-Arts idiom, expressed in its rusticated granite base, rounded arches, and banded upper stonework.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
The building became a New York City designated landmark on March 29, 2005 (LP-02162).
nearby
- 222 Bowery
- New Museum
- Fourteenth Ward Industrial School of the Children's Aid Society (Astor Memorial Building)
- Storefront for Art and Architecture
- University Settlement Society of New York
- Bowery Savings Bank