125 Barclay Street (New York City, New York) | office building, Art Deco (architecture), 1932_construction

 office building, Art Deco (architecture), 1932_construction

10-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1932. Designed by Howell & Thomas to house the World Telegram newspaper, it is actually trapezoidal in shape. The facade is clad in buff-colored brick with darker brown accent brick. Most of the facade is divided into a grid of paired windows, with narrow brick piers between the windows in each pair, and wider piers separating the bays. Copper-colored metal spandrels divide the windows between floors, except for above the 4th, 9th & 10th floors, where brown carved terra-cotta panels with green medallions decorate the facade. The entrance on the east end of the ground floor on Barclay Street is framed in black polished marble. The east elevation, which faced an alley, is faced in plain smooth stucco, although there are windows on the top half of this facade.

On the roof above the western elevation, the steel armature the once held a large WORLD TELEGRAM sign still remains, although the letters were removed when the company moved out. The building currently houses DC37, New York City's largest public employee union.