Holland Plaza Building
- Architect
- Ely Jacques Kahn
- Year
- 1929
- Style
- modern
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Holland Plaza Building, also known as One Hudson Square, is an 18-story industrial building at 75 Varick Street, built in 1929–1930 and designed by Ely Jacques Kahn in a modern-classical style. Commissioned by Abe Adelson and built by the New York Investing Company on land owned by Trinity Church, it faces the entrance to the Holland Tunnel.
the building
Printing-district tenants. Early tenants included the Macmillan Company publishers, American Book Bindery, and Royal Typewriter Company, reflecting Hudson Square's role as New York's primary printing district; Leo Alexander & Co. leased a showroom for $40,000 in early 1931.
1933 sale. In July 1933 the New York Investing Company sold the building to the Lortay Corporation for over $5 million, subject to a $4,000,000 mortgage held by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
the style
Kahn designed the building in a modern-classical style, part of his broader body of interwar modern architecture in Manhattan.
the architect
Ely Jacques Kahn was a notable interwar New York architect; this 1929 building reflects his modern-classical output during that period.
significance
Designated a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-02537) on 9/24/2013.
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