Consolidated Edison Company of New York Headquarters (New York City, New York)

 office building, Neoclassical (architecture), 1928_construction

515-foot, 26-story Beaux-Arts/Neo-Classical office building completed in 1928. Designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh and Warren & Wetmore for the Consolidated Gas Company. The building was constructed in stages, with the earliest on East 15th Street and the northern end of the block front on Irving Place, built in two phases between 1910 and 1914.

Between 1926 and 1929, Warren & Wetmore designed two more additions on Irving Place and East Fourteenth Street, wrapping eighteen-story office wings, which matched the Hardenbergh-designed portions of the building, around a signature twenty-six-story corner tower. This monumental limestone-clad tower has a three-story colonnaded base and a setback tower featuring illuminated clocks by Seth Thomas Co., a bell chamber treated as colonnaded temple modeled on the Hellenistic Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, a bell-capped roof framed by corner obelisks, and a gigantic bronze-and-glass lantern.

The headquarters of the major utility company for New York City, Consolidated Edison and its predecessors, the Consolidated Gas Company of New York and New York Edison, have continuously been here since the building’s construction. Some of the ground-level retail tenants include Apple Bank for Savings, Raymour & Flanigan furniture, and New York Sports Club.

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