Named after historic St. Paul’s Chapel located across the street, the slender 315-foot
Named after historic St. Paul’s Chapel located across the street, the slender 315-foot St. Paul Building on Broadway and Ann Street, filling a small five-sided lot. Architect and engineer George B. Post, designer of the World Building, NYSE and Brooklyn Historical Society (to name a few), stacked its twenty-six stories with repeating ionic orders, and terminated the composition of horizontals with a classical cornice rather than a dome or flagstaff. The ornate limestone facade was cantilevered from the floor girders with the main structural members placed within the pier faces protected from heat and moisture. The speculative tower was little loved by critics, one of whom called it “perhaps the least attractive design of all New York’s skyscrapers.” The building was demolished by Western Electric for a new headquarters in 1957. The building’s grand sculptures above the entrance were preserved and sit today in Holliday Park in Indiana. (at Lower Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRcimNlHE3l/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link