88 Greenwich Street Building

The 88 Greenwich Street Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Lafayette A. Goldstone and Alexander Zamshnick, and built between 1929 and 1930 in New York, NY.

88 Greenwich Street Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Greenwich Club Residences.

Its precise street address is 88 Greenwich Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 88 Greenwich 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 88 Greenwich Street Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on May 22^nd 2002.

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 2000 and 2007.

Lafayette A. Goldstone and Alexander Zamshnick was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design. But there was also one other architect involved, as far as we know. We are talking about Shreve Lamb & Harmon.

The 88 Greenwich Street Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 88 Greenwich Street Building was completed in 1930, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The 88 Greenwich Street Building uses a frame structure made of steel columns and concrete slabs.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

Another material found at the 88 Greenwich Street Building is East Indian Rosewood, used in some decorative details.