| Architect |
Henry J. Hardenbergh |
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Date Built |
1902 - 1904 |
| Location |
17 Battery
Place |
| Description |
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Wikipedia describes
the Whitehall Building as, "....
a three-section residential and
office building near the southern
tip of Manhattan Island in New York
City, adjacent to Battery Park in
lower Manhattan. .... The Whitehall
Building is named after the nearby
estate of New Amsterdam colonial
governor Peter Stuyvesant. The
original building was built as a
speculative development in 1902–1904
for Robert A. and William H.
Chesebrough, a real estate company.
The annex was built in 1908–1910 due
to high demand for space in the
original building, and 2 Washington
Street was built in 1972."
 The Landmarks
Preservation Commission explains that
the building was. ".... Built as
a speculative office tower by the
real estate and development firm of
Robert A. and William H.
Chesebrough, the building was an
immediate success and the developers
began plans to build an addition.
They hired the prolific
architectural firm of Clinton &
Russell to design a thirty-one-story
addition facing West Street, with a
tower overlooking the original
building. Constructed in 1908-10,
the Greater Whitehall, as the
addition was called, was the largest
office structure in the city at the
time of its completion. The
building's huge size coupled with
its location on landfill at the edge
of Manhattan island created the need
for unusual types of
foundations and methods for their
installation. The elegant limestone
facade, designed in a
neo-Renaissance style with a
traditional organization of base,
shaft, and capital complements the
original structure. Together then
two sections of the building create
a dramatic visual introduction to
the towers of Manhattan"
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Whitehall
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