New York Evening Post Building

skyscraper
art-deco
NY
New York

About the New York Evening Post Building in New York
1. Building Catalogations
Architect and team
Architectural style
Spaces and uses
Structure and materials

The New York Evening Post Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Horace Trumbauer, and built between 1925 and 1926 in New York, NY.

New York Evening Post Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The New York Evening Post Building is also known, or has been known as, New York Evening Building, or Post Towers.

Its precise street address is 75 West Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The New York Evening Post 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 New York Evening Post Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on September 22^nd 2000.

Building's timeline

Construction begins

1925

Construction completed

1926

Added to the NRHP

2000

years ago

2024

Architect and team

Horace Trumbauer was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

Architectural Style

The New York Evening Post Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The Art Deco movement flourished during the 1920s and 1930s, with many historians marking the outbreak of World War II as its final decline. Even though a couple of decades might not seem as much, the Art Deco movement had a great impact on architecture, and it's widely represented in many American cities due to the development boom that happened during that time.

Art Deco marked the abandonment of traditional historicism and the embracement of modern living and the age of the machine. In architecture, that meant leaving behind the ornaments of Beux-Arts and Neo-Gothic buildings and instead favoring simplicity and visual impact through geometric shapes, clean lines, and symmetrical designs. Ornaments were still an important part of the design, but they became bold and lavish, and were often inspired by ancient cultures or industrial imagery, instead of nature.

The New York Evening Post Building was completed in 1926, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

Spaces & Uses

The New York Evening Post Building reaches an architectural height of 774ft (236m), with the last accesible floor being 709ft (216m) off the gorund. It has a total of 17 floors.

When it opened its doors to the public in 1926, the New York Evening Post Building was primarily used as Commercial space. That however, is no longer the case, and today it mainly provides Residential space.

About the residences

The New York Evening Post Building has a total of 206 residential units throughout its 17 floors.

Materials & Structure

The New York Evening Post 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.

The facade is a non-load bearing masonry facade. This type of facade became common during the period when buildings, especially taller ones, transitioned from load-bearing wall systems to frame structures.

Frame structures allowed facades to be independent from the building's frame, enabling the use of lighter materials and larger openings. However, it took some time for architects to incorporate these new posibilities into their designs, and so for a while they simply replicated the look and feel fo buildings people where used to seeing.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features terracotta on the ground floor, light brown bricks on the rest of the facade and Guastavino tiles in the upper decorations.