25 Broadway
Cunard Building
(NYLPC Landmark)

 

25 Broadway Cunard BuildingStatus: Not affected.*

Originally Cunard Building (offices), 25 Broadway, SW cor. Morris St. 1917-1921. Benjamin Wistar Morris, architect; Carrere & Hastings, consulting architects. Great Hall: ceiling sculpture, C. Paul Jennewein; ceiling paintings, Ezra Winter; iron gates, Samuel Yellin. Interior: Conversion to post office, 1977, Handren Associates.

Accompanied by its neighbors "this Renaissance façade..surround Bowling Green with a high order of group architecture."

"What matters most at No. 25…is its great booking hall, with its elaborately decorated groined and conical vaults.  It was in this grand setting that passage on such liners as the Queen Mary and the two Queen Elizabeths was purchased."

Source: A.I.A Guide To New York City, 4th ed.

 

Image Obtained from Emergency Management Online Locator System - Transportation and Public Access
Emergency Management Online Locator System - Transportation and Public Access

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