A new landmark.The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is the New York City agency charged with administering New York's Landmarks Preservation Law. New York City's first landmarks legislation was enacted in 1965, prompted by the demolition of the original Pennsylvania Station, granted landmark status to the interior and exterior of the American Telephone and Telegraph Building at 195 Broadway. The building is considered one of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's most stunning examples of Greek-inspired, neo-Classical architecture, as well as one of the finest works by William Welles Bosworth. The facades of the 27-story office tower, which are detailed with swags, wreaths, lion heads and frets, are clad in Vermont granite, and defined by Ionic i·on·ic adj. Of, containing, or involving an ion or ions. ionic pertaining to an ion or ions. ionic medication iontophoresis. colonnades Colonnades may refer to one of two things
The building was constructed between Fulton and Dey Streets in three phases from 1912 to 1922. |
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