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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Hall of Records

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NRHP Reference #
  
14000543

Architectural style
  
Neoclassical architecture

Architect
  
D. Everett Waid

Area
  
3,930 m²

Added to NRHP
  
3 September 2014

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Hall of Records

Location
  
759 Palmer Rd., Yonkers, New York

Built
  
1906 (1906), 1917, 1920, 1927, 1933, 1937

Similar
  
Barclays Center, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Hotel Pennsylvania, Madison Square Garden, New York Botanical Garden

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Hall of Records is a historic corporate archives located at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. It was designed by noted architect D. Everett Waid and built by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1906. The Classical Revival style building consists of a two-story section built in 1906, a third floor that was added in 1920, and two additions that were constructed in 1917 and 1927. It is constructed of steel frame and reinforced concrete, and has a brick curtain wall. The building is "L"-shaped features a convex portico with cast stone columns at the interior of the "L". The building housed over 56 linear miles of filing space in shelving units and cabinets and remained under Metropolitan Life’s ownership until 2006.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

References

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Hall of Records Wikipedia