Old New York Evening Post Building

{{short description|Historic commercial building in Manhattan, New York}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Old New York Evening Post Building

| nrhp_type =

| image = New York Evening Post Building from below.jpg

| caption = The Old New York Evening Post Building in Manhattan in 2012

| location = 20 Vesey Street,
Manhattan, New York City

| coordinates = {{coord|40|42|43|N|74|0|36|W|region:US-NY_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Lower Manhattan#New York#USA

| built = 1906-07

| architect = Robert D. Kohn

| architecture = Art Nouveau

| added = August 16, 1977

| refnum = 77000963{{NRISref|2009a}}

| designated_other2_name = New York City Landmark

| designated_other2_date = November 13, 1965

| designated_other2_abbr = NYCL

| designated_other2_link = New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

| designated_other2_number =

| designated_other2_color = #ffe978

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The Old New York Evening Post Building is the former office and printing plant of the New York Evening Post newspaper located at 20 Vesey Street between Church Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1906-07 and was designed by architect Robert D. Kohn for Oswald Garrison Villard, who owned the Post at the time, and is considered to be "one of the few outstanding Art Nouveau buildings" ever constructed in the United States.

The fourteen-story, stone-veneer building is "reminiscent of the buildings that line the boulevards of Paris", and was not copied from an existing building.[http://www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org/db/bb_files/OLD-NY-EVENING-POST-ORIG.pdf "Old New York Evening Post Building Designation Report"] New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (November 23, 1965) It features three tall bays of cast-iron framed bow windows, separated by pale limestone piers. There is an elaborate copper-covered mansard roof, two stories high and four elaborate sculpted figures. The statues depict the Four Periods of Publicity; two are by Gutzon Borglum, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, and two by the architect's wife, Estelle Rumbold Kohn.{{cite nycland}}, p.23

The New York Evening Post occupied the building until moving to the New York Evening Post Building in 1926.{{cite web| url = https://cris.parks.ny.gov/| title = Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)| publisher = New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation| format = Searchable database| access-date = 2015-12-01| archive-url = https://archive.today/20150701003048/http://cris.parks.ny.gov/| archive-date = 2015-07-01| url-status = dead}} Note: This includes {{cite web | url = https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=28642&q=false | title = National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Old New York Evening Post Building | access-date = 2015-12-01 | author = Larry Gobrecht | format = PDF | date = January 1977 }} See also: {{cite web |url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=28643&q=false |title=Accompanying photos }}

The building, which was later called the Garrison Building,{{cite AIA4}}, p.67 was designated a New York City landmark in 1965,Diamonstein, Barbarlee, The Landmarks of New York III, Harry Abrams, 1998, p. 283 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission was headquartered in the building from 1980 to 1987.