Built 1856-57 Designated NYCL August 24, 1982 Added to NRHP 15 September 1983 | NRHP Reference # 83001719 Opened 1856 | |
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Address 105 Chambers St, New York, NY 10007, USA Architectural styles Renaissance architecture, Renaissance Revival architecture Similar Broadway–Chambers Building, A T Stewart Company, E V Haughwout Building, First Hungarian Reformed, Bouwerie Lane Theatre | ||
The Cary Building at 105-107 Chambers Street, extending along Church Street to Reade Street, in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1856-1857 and was designed by Gamaliel King and John Kellum ("King & Kellum") in the Italian Renaissance revival style, with the cast-iron facade provided by Daniel D. Badger's Architectural Iron Work. The five-story twin-facaded building was constructed for William H. Cary's Cary, Howard & Sanger, a dry goods firm.
Although built as a commercial structure, the Cary Building is now residential. As a result of the widening of Church Street in the 1920s, a 200-foot-long wall of unadorned brick is now exposed on the east side of the building; as Christopher Gray observed in the New York Times, comparing the structure to cast-iron buildings with facades obscured by modern signage, "There is not too little of the Cary Building but too much."
The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1982, and was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building was once home to The New York Sun.