116 John Street Building

The 116 John Street Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Louis Allen Abramson and built in 1931 in New York, NY.

Its precise street address is 116 John Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 116 John Street Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of New York and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the 116 John Street Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on June 20^th 2014.

The building has been restored 2 times over the years to ensure its conservation and adaptation to the pass of time. The main restoration works happened in 2013 and 2018.

Louis Allen Abramson was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

Louis Allen Abramson was in charge of the architectural design, however, architecture is a complex discipline, which usually involves many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the 116 John Street Building a reality:

• Platt Construction Company as the Main Contractor
• 116 John Street Building as the collaborating Artist

The 116 John Street Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 116 John Street Building was completed in 1931, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features terracotta cladding on the first three floors, and light-colored bricks from there on until the top.