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United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)
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Germania Life Insurance Company Building
Park Avenue South and Union Square, Manhattan
This twenty-story commercial building, crowned by an early and impressive example of modern signage, was designed by the architectural firm of D'Oench & Yost and built in 1910-11 as the national headquarters for the Germania Life Insurance Company of New York (now The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, the continuation of the original firm). The building is a tripartite columnar skyscraper which incorporates in its design motifs from traditional European architecture, most prominently the grand four-story mansard roof with varied dormer windows. The mansard roof and other features tie the building's design to French architecture, both the Second Empire style and the modern French mode that dominated Parisian architecture• of the 1890s. By employing the mansard, D'Oench & Yost alluded to a mansarded building that previously housed the company, thus continuing an architectural tradition which began around 1870 and conveyed a sound public image. The Germania Life Insurance Company Building (now Guardian Life Building) is prominently located on a corner site visible from Union Square and, together with the monumental Everett Building directly across the avenue, forms an imposing terminus to Park Avenue South.
Prominently situated on the northeast corner of East 17th street and Park Avenue South, the Germania (now Guardian) Life Building is a twenty-story office building with a basement and sub-basement. 54 According to the New Building Application, the building conforms to the original lot lines being 80'x 115,.55 curtain wall construction is employed. The foundation walls are built of brick in Portland cement and mortar; the upper walls are constructed of granite and brick. The materials for the elevations are brick and granite; the mansard roof is covered in vitrified tile. According to the New Building application, the architects considered the main roof to be flat and surmounted by the four upper stories that comprise the mansard. 56 9 The two-story base of the Germania (now Guardian) Life Building is rusticated with deep horizontal scoring. On the lower half of the base (or the first story), windows topped by segmental arches with foliated console-like keystones and pronounced voussoirs that merge with the coursing appear. A pronounced belt-course with dolphin-headed waterspouts separates this first story from the upper part of the base. The main entrance, which is treated in a manner similar to the window apertures with deep scoring, pronounced voussoirs which merge with the scoring and a foliated console-like keystone, appears at the extreme left of the Park Avenue South facade. The upper half of the base has less pronounced coursing and is characterized by round-arched apertures flanked by smaller fenestration. On the East 17th Street elevation, three double-height round-arched windows are flanked by pairs of smaller windows. The upper and lower windows are square-headed; those below are topped by tympana embellished by scallop-shell motifs. Consoles draped by garlands join the tympana of the lower windows with the squareheaded apertures above. On the Park Avenue South facade, a double-height round-arched window is bisected by a cast-iron balcony bearing the initials "Gil and "L" for Germania Life. This window is flanked by a pair of vertically aligned narrow rectangular windows on either side; panels ornamented by garlands appear between these two windows. These windows are in turn flanked by pairs of windows resembling those on the East 17thStreet elevation.
The base is capped by a continuous -. stone balustrade embellished by recessed panels bearing rosettes and supported by foliated brackets, which is indented at the East 17th Street and Park Avenue South corner. The stone balustrade serves as a transition to the twelve-story shaft. Horizontal rectangles are applied to the shaft and give it the appearance of light rustication. Above the third story on both the Park Avenue South and East 17th Street elevations, the company name appears. On the Park Avenue South facade, on the fourth through the fourteenth stories a group of three square-headed, one-over-one windows united by a continuous pronounced stone sill is flanked by two similar windows on either side. On the East 17th Street elevation, on the fourth through the fourteenth stories three central pairs of square-headed windows are each joined by a pronounced stone sill; these three pairs are flanked by two square-headed windows on either side.
A group of protruding stone sills indicates the beginning of a two-story transition which separates the shaft from the building's "crown". On the first of these two stories, sections corresponding to piers are ornamented by recessed panels bearing escutcheons flanked by torches. sections of wall between windows are ornamented by bell-flowers topped by lion's heads all set 10 within recessed panels. This lower hal
American Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, First Floor Interior
Financial District, Manhattan
Planned by the noted architect William Welles Bosworth and built in phases between 1912 and 1922, the Greek-inspired first floor lobby of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, with its forest of polished marble Doric columns, is one of the great monumental classical interiors in New York City. Envisioned by company president Theodore Newton Vail as a grand corporate symbol, this dignified interior was designed to create an impression of quality, durability, and permanence expressive of the Telephone Company’s commitment to public service. Inspired by classical Greek and Egyptian temple design, the lobby is treated as a grand hypostyle hall with forty massive columns, modeled on the Doric order of the Parthenon in Athens, supporting a high coffered ceiling. The walls and floors are clad in marble and the interior is beautifully detailed with Greek-inspired ornament.
Melding extraordinary architecture with art of an equally high caliber, the decorative program includes classically-inspired marble friezes of putti carrying garlands by the renowned sculptors Paul Manship and Gaston Lachaise. An allegorical bronze and marble sculptural group entitled, “Service to the Nation,” by Chester Beach, serves as a focal point for the portion of the lobby facing onto Broadway. Notable decorative features include the patinated bronze and alabaster chandeliers inspired by Greek and Pompeian models, the cast bronze grilles and doors, the marble railings and directory boards, the original cast bronze window enframements enriched with mullions and paterae, the graceful bronze staircase rail with a newel modeled after a Greek tripod, and the marble mail box decorated with carvings based on Greek and Roman altar decorations. From 1916 until 1983, 195 Broadway was the headquarters of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the largest corporation in the world for much of the twentieth century. It remains in use as an office building and its lobby is still considered to be “among the most noble” of any office tower in New York City.
- From the 2006 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
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