page_title: 26 Broadway
section_title: Features
hierarchical_section_title: 26 Broadway / Description / Features
caption_attribution_description: English: A shot of the lobby at the Cornell AAP NYC Studio / Standard Oil Building.Site: Cornell AAP NYC Studio / Standard Oil Building
context_page_description: 26 Broadway, also known as the Standard Oil Building or Socony–Vacuum Building, is an office building located adjacent to Bowling Green park in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The 31-story, 520-foot-tall structure was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, in conjunction with Shreve, Lamb & Blake.
  26 Broadway is located on a pentagonal site bounded by Broadway to the northwest, Bowling Green to the west, Beaver Street to the south, New Street to the east/southeast, and the axis of Morris Street to the north. It contains a tower topped by a stepped pyramid, as well as a curved facade along Broadway.
  The original structure was built in 1884–1885 for Standard Oil on the former site of U.S. treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's house. The Standard Oil Building was expanded in 1895 and again after World War I, when Walter C. Teagle bought four neighboring buildings to create a continuous lot. The building was greatly expanded to its current size in a multi-phase construction project that took place between 1921 and 1928.
context_section_description: The entrance contains an entrance hall 40 feet (12 m) high. The interior features 19 elevators; the elevators in the original building were removed when the expansion was built. The 23rd floor contained squash courts with adjoining locker and shower rooms. The 21st floor, which housed Standard Oil successor Socony's board room, covered 2,000 square feet (190 m²) and contained a double-height ceiling with relief panels; a limestone fireplace; and oak wainscoting.
  The building contains a basement 10 feet (3.0 m) deep, as well as a sub-basement 37 feet (11 m) deep. All of 26 Broadway's mechanical equipment is located in the sub-basement.
caption: Lobby passageway
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