New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-03
TWIN CORTLANDT

Clinton & Russell, architects for the Hudson
& Manhattan Railroad Company. of which Will
lam G. McAdoo is president, owners of the
Cortlandt street tunnel filed yesterday with
Buildings Superintendent Murphy the plans for
the twin office building being built In church
street in which will be the terminal station OF
the tunnel route in Church street now under
construction. These buildings are to form what
II Is said will be the largest office structure IN
the world They are to be on the west side OF
Church street extending from Cortandt TO Dey
street and from Dey street to Fulton street, re-
spectively. the northery section being known
as the Fulton Building and the southeriy the
Cortlandt Building. They are each to be TWEEN
ty-two stories high. or 275.9 feet above the curo
and IS feet beneath the street level. The Cort-
landt Building will have frontage of 2l4-3ia
feet and a depth Of 1863 feet. and the Fulton
Building frontage of 1859 feet and depth Of
179.s feet.
Each building will be Of similar architectural
design, the Italian Renaissance. the facades be-
ing polished granite and limestone for the first
four stories and ornamental brick trimmed with
terra Gotta above The uniformity OF the fronts
will be relieved by several large ornamental
hays at the upper stories and by q row Of Dorlc
columns supporting a cornice below the roof
the columns being three stories in height. The
Cortlandt Building will be lighted by a row OF
twenty-five windows on each floor on Church
street and twenty on Cortlandt street at each
story The Fulton Building will have eighteen
windows on each floor the Church street
side and nineteen OH the Dey street side The
Cortlandt Building viii be equipped with TWEEN
ty-one passenger elevators and the Fulton
Building with seventeen passenger elevators and
a separate elevator for transporting safes.
The two buildings VIII contain space for 1000
offices The halls will all be of marble paved
with terraza. Each building viii have ornament
al entrances hanked by decorated columns.
The architects drawings, which number forty
seven for the COrtlandt building and fOTty-elGnt
for the Fulton building. show in detail the inter
esting arrangement of space below the sidewalk
which comprises, first, the concourse promenade
and passenger waiting rooms and ticket ana
baggage rooms. next the track floor and below
that the sub-station and pOyer equipment. These
floors are reached both by elevators and by spa
tracks for each building. and there will be an
underground restaurant and kitchen, as well as
telephone stations and barber, bootblackinS
end parcel rooms for the use of the passengers.
The plans also provide for great overhead
restaurant and kitchen for the tenants of the
myriad of offices.
The total cost of the buildings is estimated al
81. OO0.O0 -$3OO0O00 for the Cortlandt building
and S2,O0OO0O for the Fulton building.
The Wall and Broad Street Realty COMPANY
has sold for Mrs Lena Adler to Simon Heyman
Il flve-story double fiathOuse on a lot 2Jl1x10O
feet at the northwest corner of 10th street and
Central Park West.
Benjamin Florsheim has sold the Larchmont
a six story apartment house, with stores. Nos
2031 and 2O33 9TH ave. on plot 81. 1Ox1O0 feet 10
Gustave Basch Also sold the southwest corner
of list st. and I'd ave, five story triple fiat
house, with three stores, on lot about 2JxSO feet