New York Evening Post Building
- Architect
- Horace Trumbauer
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The New York Evening Post Building, also known as the New York Post Building or Post Towers, is a 17-story Art Deco commercial building in Lower Manhattan designed by architect Horace Trumbauer and built in 1926 for the New York Evening Post, which occupied it until 1970.
the building
Setbacks and light well. The steel frame and masonry tower has setbacks beginning at the seventh floor and a U-shaped light well, with abundant terra cotta and Guastavino tile embellishments.
the style
The building was designed in the Art Deco style, expressed through its stepped-back massing and decorative terra cotta and Guastavino tilework.
More on Art Decothe architect
Horace Trumbauer designed the building; the Evening Post had previously occupied a separate building from 1906 to 1926 before moving here.
significance
The building, now residential, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 2000.
nearby
- West Street Building
- 50 West Street
- St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
- American Stock Exchange Building
- Trinity Church and Graveyard
- Empire Building