The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-18

fooie II. the new building. Take the .Ameri-
can Tract S%ocieiy's building. for example. The
OLD building which stood upon the site was
five or six stories tall. The new one 10 twenty
three stories tall, According 70 the rule men
My about four times as many persons. Asa
matter OF fact, It ommodates fourteen
When such q new building is filled no IL
draws all of the best tenants from more than a
dozen 9,d-stsle buildings OF the neiShborhooa.
lngs. The new Bowling. Green building Is per-
haps as good an example ms there is In ,this
city Of the increased communication which
can DO got from n proper disposition OF tho
az .llaolo 81 e. II occupies Just about 1920
foot wide lots on Broadway ana six similar
lots on Greenwich street. Bv the taking of the
whole pio, for ono building the Greenwich street
erty. Assuming. however. that all twelve OF the
lots had good buildings on them. ant could haye
that there could have been hut two light offices
on each floor Of each twenty-nve-foot build;
have be n placed higher than the third floor.
So tie whole twelve houses would have &C
f9%" mppsr f,oo opV or sgET oars of tb. 1T bui,d innnn'S II
these we're four. five. or Elk stories tall. would
have been used for goods, lofts or dwellings.
design of every floor from the fourth to the
Is in three parts. built about n great open CEN
trail court about sixty feet wide. The main
The iSScr space aga against ase s the deaG V wall to 1 the north Il
and the dead walls 10 the south are Of the
depth Of only the two sets OF offices in each
wing. Central corridors run down these
wings and offices open on each side. Along the
entire outer wall line there are wide windows
made int a .eparete office. Around the court.
where there is u little less free light, the win
dow every fou. teen feet. and the wall is nearly
all OF glass. Each OF these floors has an actual
F Isn. Hf s sR"S. Of stk is;' eGm s"HSs' o fsSs; the S ssq nova
divided each shows thirty-nine offices which
range in size from o3l square feet to Idol
and . 1850 square feot.
The lower floors havo more office space, be-
sides valuable room for booths along the en-
pacity roughly to ofices OF a single window
each and apnr. ximating 10 to IA feet by ID TO
decessors you'd have held but sesenty-two of.
fees, now holds LOGO, or fourteen times as
many. Instead Of a daily POPULATION Of per:
1900 when It is full.
Now see what this comparison means when
applied to all the new buildings which have
sprung up downtown in q few wears. Not all
Of them are so big or 40 tall as the Bowling
Green building, but there are Il good many
enormous once. The ST. Paul building. is 90
stories high: the American Tract Sociuty'e, %:
the American Surstv,s. 81; the Commercial
cate. is: the Home Life. is: III. Johnston. Is:
the Postal Telegraph Cable building. 10, and n
host of others 10 or IL stories. Here is a list.
which are to be found below Houston street:
ChesAbroueh building. 81 to "a state street.
Hanover Square building, 100 Pearl street.
Coffee Exchange, lis Pearl and GO Beaver
Washinz ton building. l Broadway.
Bowling Green building, IL Broad way.
Central building, IL Broadway and Beaver
Produce Exchan.e, Broadway and Beaver
Weiles building. ID Broadway.
standard on building. "a to 90 Broadway.
Commercial building, 40 Broadway.
Aldrich Court, 40 broadway.
Consolidated Stock Exchange building. SO to
Annhattan Life building. "a to es Broadway
Empire. II Broadway. corner of Rector street.
Union Trust Company building, so Broad
scbermerhorn. 90 Broadway. 9 Wall, and 8
American Surety. 100 Broadway.
Boreel, lib to 1l9 Broad way.
Equitable building, l2o broadway and 10
and 81 Nassau street.
Niagara building. 1877 Broadway.
Guerpsey buildin", 100 to 1o4 broadway:
New York Steam Company building. 173
Corbin building. 1872 Broadway.
Western Union building, 1875 to 100 Broad
Mail and Express building. goa Broadway
and 1888 Fulton street;
ne St Oh Paul tsl'f p%ui ding; geo Broadway.
Postal telegraph building. 253 Broadway.
Home Life building, 256 Broadway.
United States Life, bull ing. o6l Broadway.
National SDO6 ana Leather Bank, SIl BROAD
way. corner of Chambers street.
Mutual Rsssrye buildins. aos'Bro.away.
Cable building, Broadway ard Houston
National Bank of Commerce. 81 to 81 Nassau
Mutual Life building. 20 and 40 Nassau street
Prescott building. a. and g g. N.s.ag street.
f Esw Sail G g s. S e :aa s ST. ss'''o''''s'1
ample building, 80 Nassau street.
Bennett building. 90 tn 30 Nassau street.
E,y.rntt AuittinU 81 tn OH a nm afFRRl- c0rnAF
Nassau Chambers. ia Nassau and 45 Ann
Wood building. lis Nassau street.
Temple Court. 3 to o Beekman and 11s to
vanderbils building. 1se Nassau street.
Morse building. ias 70 l42 Nassau strest.
: american TraG, so;!s asy, r. l 20 S Ys::Su street. s.sss;
Potter building. 35 TO 80 Park row.
Times building. Al Park row.
Pulitzer building. 81 Park row.
Drexel building. ! to o Broad street.
Mills building. IL to 20 Broad. and 35 Wall
johnston building. SO to 80 Broad street.
Edison building. "A Broad and 40 New street
Morris 6Tiidi Ing 6t 70 % hni BdGaS st re R,o.d
Cotton Exchange. at william and Beaver:
Corn Exchange Bank building. Is Will
Lords Court building. 27 William street:
Farmers Loan and Trust Company. ~ Will
Van Nostrand building. % William street.
Liverpool and London and Globe building.
As 10 40 William street.
Union building. "a William street.
London and Lancashire building. 81 Will
lam street.
street.
Germania building. 62 William street.
Kemp building. 6S William street.
Hack building. 93 to 81 William street.
Curtis building. So South William and 80
United Bank building. . Wall street. corner
Aator. 10 Wall and o Pine street.
Mortimer building. IL Wall street.
Stevens building. IA to ls Wall street.
Wilks building, Is to ~ Wall street..
Unifed States National Bank building. 43
Wall street.
Bank Of America. Az Wall
Insurance building. 40 and 81 Wall street.
Eagle building. II Wall street.
Levin building. 40 Wall street.
Tontine building. IA to No Wall street.
Delaware L~ackawnnna and Western build
ing. 20 Exchange place.
Post building. 10 and IL Exchange place.
Hanover Bank building. II Pine street
Lancashire building. 25 Pine street.
Loeb bnilding, 27 and 20 Pine street.
imperial building, 81 and 80 Pine street. .