Westinghouse Building (New York City, New York)

269-foot, 23-story Renaissance-revival office building completed in 1924. Designed by Starrett & Van Vleck, it has a 4-story limestone base, with the upper floors clad in buff-colored brick. The Broadway elevation is divided into five bays, and the Liberty Street side has seven. The ground floor is lined with storefronts, and is rather plain, except for the simple rounded cornice and main entrance in the 2nd bay from the north on Broadway. It has slightly recessed brass doors with a rope molding and foliate pattern carved in the stone surround. Above the doorway is carved "WESTINGHOUSE BUILDING".

In the next two floors, each bay is divided into one wide and two narrow windows by cast-iron pilasters. The double-height openings are divided by stone spandrel panels with small carved rosettes between the narrow windows and a shallow eschutcheon between the main panes. Each opening is framed by a slender rope molding and topped by a scrolled keystone. At the 4th floor, each bay is divided into paired windows, which is repeated in the upper floors. The piers between each bay have simple outlined stone panels, and the pilasters between the windows are decorated with intricate carvings. The base is capped by a narrow dentiled cornice.

The brick shaft has decorative brickwork in the spandrels, and continuous sill courses running across the bases of every third floor. A corbelled cornice tops this section at the 16th floor. The upper floors are set back and also clad in brick. A dentiled cornice tops the 21st floor, and a simple parapet marks the roof line. The ground floor is occupied by Modell's Sporting Goods, a Bank of America branch, and Sephora cosmetics. In 1943, John Wannamaker & Co. opened up their Liberty Street Shop in this location.
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Coordinates:  40°42'33"N 74°0'36"W
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