Trinity Building
- Architect
- Francis H. Kimball
- Year
- 1907
- City
- Manhattan, NY
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The Trinity Building at 111 Broadway was designed by Francis H. Kimball and built in 1905 with an addition in 1907, making it, alongside Kimball's neighboring United States Realty Building, among the first Gothic-inspired skyscrapers in New York. It stands adjacent to the churchyard of Richard Upjohn's neo-Gothic Trinity Church and replaced an 1853 Trinity Building by Upjohn on the same site.
the building
Site with a layered past. The plot previously held the Van Cortlandt sugar house, a notorious British prison where American soldiers were held during the Revolutionary War, before an 1853 Trinity Building and later Kimball's 1905 structure rose in its place.
the style
Kimball designed the Trinity Building in a Gothic idiom that echoed Richard Upjohn's neo-Gothic Trinity Church next door, making it one of the first skyscrapers in New York to translate church Gothic into office-tower form.
the architect
Francis H. Kimball designed the Trinity Building in 1905 as well as the adjacent United States Realty Building of 1907; the record here does not detail his broader career.
significance
The Trinity Building is a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-01557), designated June 7, 1988.
nearby
- Trinity Church and Graveyard
- American Stock Exchange Building
- American Surety Company Building
- Equitable Building
- Singer Building
- 140 Broadway