ZippyTheChimp
March 24th, 2008, 01:15 AM
While the landmarking of 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza is being considered, the already landmarked Liberty Tower across the street is getting an exterior rehabilitation.
Often overlooked and now hidden among much larger buildings, Liberty Tower was a skyscraper when it was built in 1909. It survived many changes in ownership, and although it became outdated as an office building, it didn't suffer the fate of its contemporary, the Singer Building, probably because the landmarked Chamber of Commerce building next door precluded assembling a large site.
So after Sinclair Oil (it was known as the Sinclair Building at that time) moved out, it continued as a commercial building until 1979, when it became one of the first residential conversions in the Financial District.
It was designated a NYC landmark in 1982 (http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/82---LIBERTY-TOWER.pdf)
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Often overlooked and now hidden among much larger buildings, Liberty Tower was a skyscraper when it was built in 1909. It survived many changes in ownership, and although it became outdated as an office building, it didn't suffer the fate of its contemporary, the Singer Building, probably because the landmarked Chamber of Commerce building next door precluded assembling a large site.
So after Sinclair Oil (it was known as the Sinclair Building at that time) moved out, it continued as a commercial building until 1979, when it became one of the first residential conversions in the Financial District.
It was designated a NYC landmark in 1982 (http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/82---LIBERTY-TOWER.pdf)
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5844/libertytower01sz1.th.jpg (http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=libertytower01sz1.jpg) http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1084/libertytower02jo5.th.jpg (http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=libertytower02jo5.jpg) http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/5599/libertytower04me0.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=libertytower04me0.jpg) http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/538/libertytower05zl3.th.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=libertytower05zl3.jpg) http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5711/libertytower06fr8.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=libertytower06fr8.jpg) http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/5157/libertytower07ku5.th.jpg (http://img503.imageshack.us/my.php?image=libertytower07ku5.jpg)