Robbins & Appleton Building

Architect
Stephen Decatur Hatch
Year
1880
Style
Second Empire
City
Manhattan, NY
Robbins & Appleton Building
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The Robbins & Appleton Building at 1-5 Bond Street was built in 1879-1880 to a design by Stephen Decatur Hatch in the Second Empire style, originally housing watch case manufacturing and publisher D. Appleton & Company.

the building

Cast iron and mansard roof. The building features an ornate cast iron facade beneath a mansard roof, characteristic of its Second Empire design.

the style

Hatch designed the building in the Second Empire style, giving the commercial corner an ornate cast-iron facade and mansard roof.

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the architect

Stephen Decatur Hatch was a 19th-century New York architect who designed this Bond Street building in 1880.

significance

Converted to residential use in 1986, the building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1979 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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