Liberty Tower
- Address: 55 Liberty St
- Vicinity: Nassau St
- Neighborhood of Financial District, NYC in Manhattan NYC
- Nabe of Wall Street in Financial District, NYC
- Borough of Manhattan NYC in New York City
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1825/00/00 | William Cullen Bryant | Work | William Bryant accepts part-time duties with the New-York Evening Post under William Coleman. Bryant advanced rapidly from Assistant Editor to Editor-in-Chief and co-owner of the newspaper. New York Evening Post occupied the site of Liberty Tower. | |||
1825/00/00 | New York Post | Headquarters | William Bryant accepts part-time duties with the New-York Evening Post under William Coleman. Bryant advanced rapidly from Assistant Editor to Editor-in-Chief and co-owner of the newspaper. New York Evening Post occupied the site of Liberty Tower. | |||
1909/00/00 | Henry Ives Cobb | Architect | Bryant Building - for William Cullen Bryant, editor of the New York Evening Post which previously occupied the site - is built in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City, 1909-1910. | |||
1910/07/00 | Theodore Roosevelt | Work | As one of its first commercial tenants, President Theodore Roosevelt opens a law office. | |||
1919/00/00 | Sinclair Oil Co | Headquarters | Sinclair Oil leases the Bryant building from 1919 until 1945 as the Sinclair Oil Building. | |||
1945/00/00 | From 1945 to 1979 Liberty Tower continues to be used for offices, but not profitably. | |||||
1978/00/00 | Joseph Pell Lombardi | Architect | Architect Joseph Lombardi - finding Liberty Tower an economically failed building, substantially vacant and rundown - sells whole and partial floors to cooperators as raw residential space which the tenants themselves designed and built. | |||
2010/04/02 | Liberty Tower, adorned with terra-cotta gargoyles, birds, alligators and flowers, completes a $5 million restoration, replacing 3,200 terra cotta blocks and 202 sculptures on its facade, damaged by the 2001 collapse of the nearby World Trade Center. | September 11th Attacks |
Particulars for Liberty Tower: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Architectural Style | Gothic Revival |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Professional |
Architectural Style | Skyscraper |
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