Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association Building (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Broadway, 305
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184-foot, 13-story Romanesque-revival office building completed in 1894. Designed by William H. Hume, it is clad in limestone and granite. The two main facades are arranged with a six-story base, with arcades up to the 5th story, and rusticated piers; a six-story planar mid-section; and a one-story rusticated upper section with an arcade of windows and a tall balustraded parapet. Intricate Romanesque style foliate carving appears on such areas as the arches, column capitals, and cornices. There are paired windows on Broadway and the end bays on Duane Street, and tripartite windows on the rest of Duane Street facade, divided by stone piers, columns, or colonnettes. The western wall is clad in plain brown brick, with windows on the upper half.

The Mutual Reserve Building was owned, until 1920, by the grandchildren of the immensely wealthy Boston merchant shipping magnate and shipbuilder, William F. Weld. The initial principal tenant of the building was the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, launched in 1881. Mutual Reserve only lasted until 1909, however, and the structure was re-named the Langdon Building. It has housed many other tenants, including firms and organizations associated with the publishing and paper trades, as well as many lawyers’ offices. By 1950, the building began to house a number of state government agencies. The ground floor is occupied by a Duane-Reade pharmacy.

In this building

  1. Duane Reade
  2. Akin & Smith
  3. Braff Harris & Sukoneck
  4. Bretz & Coven, LLP
  5. Bryant Group
  6. Fishman Neil Llp
  7. Itkowitz & Harwood
  8. M.Arch Architects
  9. McAdams Jeffrey
  10. Koenigsberg Robert
  11. Richman Labe M
  12. Salzman & Winer
  13. Sokolski & Zekaria
  14. The Academic Advantage
  15. Tucker Evelyn T
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Coordinates:   40°42'55"N   74°0'20"W
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