76 Beaver Street | office building, Art Deco (architecture), 1930_construction

 office building, Art Deco (architecture), 1930_construction

308-foot, 25-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1930. Designed by Chester James Storm, this narrow building has elevations on three streets. The 3-story base is clad in limestone above a granite water table, and is simply designed, with large multi-paned windows across each bay on the 2nd floor, and individual windows on the 3rd floor. Large piers divide the Hanover Street facade into a wide center bay of four windows, flanked on either side by a 2-window bay, and a 3-window bay on the north, with a 4-window bay on the south. The Beaver Street elevation, on the north side, is divided into a 4-window bay and a 2-window bay, as is the south Pearl Street elevation.

The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick, with the major piers continuing up from the base, and smaller intermediate piers dividing the windows in each bay. The shaft rises to a modest series of setbacks at the top, creating a cascade on the Beaver Street side. At each setback there are stone spandrel panels with typical Art-Deco geometric patterns. The narrow Beaver and Pearl Street sides have entrances; the wider Hanover Street elevation does not. The ground floor is occupied by Cafe Bravo.