New York Life Insurance Building

This article is about the building in New York. For other buildings of the same name, see New York Life Insurance Building (disambiguation).

The New York Life Insurance Building as taken from the observation deck at the Empire State Building

The New York Life Insurance Building, New York is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company. It was designed in 1926 by Cass Gilbert, designer of the landmark Woolworth Building; the massive building rises forty stories to its pyramidal gilded roof and occupies the full block between 26th and 27th Streets, Madison Avenue and Park Avenue South, a rarity in New York. From 1837–1889, the site was occupied by the Union Depot of the New York and Harlem and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroads, a concert garden, and P.T. Barnum's Hippodrome. Until 1925, the site housed the original Madison Square Garden, designed by architect Stanford White.

The New York Life Insurance Building was completed in 1928 and combines streamlined Gothic details and distinctly Moderne massing. It has been designated an official New York City landmark by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark.

Tower Top, from the northeast

References

• The WPA Guide to New York City 1939, reprinted 1982 ISBN 0-394-71215-3

External links

• New York City Landmarks
• NYC-Architecture.com

Coordinates: 40°44′35″N 73°59′08″W / 40.74306, -73.98556

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Categories: Skyscrapers in New York City

New York Life Insurance Building, Montreal

Approaching Place d'Armes. New York Life Insurance Building is the red structure at left

New York Life Building was erected in 1888. Located at Place d'Armes in what is now known as Old Montreal, it was the tallest commercial building in Montreal at the time. The first 8 storeys of the 11 storey red sandstone building consists of office space. The remaining three storeys consist of the clock tower atop the building.

The New York Life Building was built by architects Babb, Cook and Willard and contractor Peter Lyall for the New York Life Insurance Company as their offices in Canada. Sculptor Henry Beaumont enhanced the ornate exterior

New York Life Insurance Building, Chicago

New York Life Insurance Building
The New York Life Insurance Building during construction.
Information
Location	Chicago, Illinois
Coordinates	41°52′53.2″N, 87°37′56.2″W
Status	Completed
Constructed	1894
Technical details
Floor count	14
Companies
Architect	William Le Baron Jenney

The New York Life Insurance Building is a 14 story building at 39 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by William Le Baron Jenney and completed in 1894.^[1][2] In 2002, the building was given a preliminary landmark status

Future

Preservation Chicago has considered the building one of Chicago's most threatened in 2006.^[2] In June of that year a company submitted an application to the Chicago Plan Commission including plans to renovate the structure and build 29 South LaSalle, an adjacent 51 story office building