Garrison Building

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152-foot, 13-story Art-Nouveau style office building completed in 1907. Designed by Robert D. Kohn, It was erected as the offices and printing plant of the New York Evening Post. It is clad in limestone, with wide piers breaking the facade into three bays. The 3rd-7th floors have rounded bay windows with four panes each, with pale-green cast-iron mullions and spandrels that feature decorative carvings. The bays terminate at the 9th floor with segmental-arches. The 10th floor has three bays of three deeply-recessed windows, with four large statues on the piers. Known as the Four Periods of Publicity, two are by Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore, and two are by Estelle Rumbold Kohn, the architect’s wife. The top floors angle back in a steep, copper mansard roof decorated with Viennese architectural forms. The sidewalls are clad in brown brick.

After the New York Post moved out, the building became known as the Garrison Building. The Mutual Life Insurance Company owned the building until October 30, 1944 when it was sold to an investing firm. The building continued through the rest of the 20th century to have a varied tenant list: in the 1960s it was home to the Practicing Law Institute and, among others, E. E. Pearce Company, a lumber firm. The New York Landmarks Preservation Commission was headquartered in the building from 1980 to 1987. The ground floor is currently occupied by a small smoke shop, and the 9/11 Memorial Preview Site.