Franklin-Hudson Building (New York City, New York)
USA /
New Jersey /
Hoboken /
New York City, New York /
Hudson Street, 100
World
/ USA
/ New Jersey
/ Hoboken
apartment building, 1909_construction
126-foot, 10-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1909. Designed by Alexander Baylies as an office, store and loft building, it has three main facades. Each consists of a 2-story limestone base, a stone-clad transitional 3rd floor, a buff-colored brick midsection, and a 2-story stone crown. The bay framing at the base is created by giant stone pilasters and the dentilled entablature they support. The original cast-iron storefront arrangement, which survives in various degrees in most of the bays, is composed of a low bulkhead, fluted pilasters which frame the show window and glazed door with its transom, a band of three operable wood transoms with leaded glass and embellished mullions, and a dentilled entablature. A cast-iron spandrel with decorated borders, a central emblem, and anthemia supports the second-story tripartite window grouping.
The midsection is defined by end pilasters and intermediate piers, surmounted by a dentilated entablature, which frame a tripartite window arrangement in each bay; the 3rd floor is faced in smooth terra-cotta tiles and the remaining midsection stories are faced in brick with stone lintels and sills.
The crown is embellished by an engaged colonnade of end pilasters and intermediate orders (columns on the Hudson Street facade and pilasters on the other two facades) resting on a balustrade. Each bay contains a brick arch with a scrolled keystone into which two stories of tripartite windows and an embellished metal spandrel are inserted. A deep metal roof cornice with anthemion cresting tops the building.
The building was occupied by the offices of many import-export firms; canning and packing companies; stationers and printers; candy, nut, and dried fruit companies; merchants of oils,mushrooms, rice, milk products, and canned fish. In 1977 floors 2-10 were converted to residential use. The ground floor is occupied by Thom Browne New York apparel.
The midsection is defined by end pilasters and intermediate piers, surmounted by a dentilated entablature, which frame a tripartite window arrangement in each bay; the 3rd floor is faced in smooth terra-cotta tiles and the remaining midsection stories are faced in brick with stone lintels and sills.
The crown is embellished by an engaged colonnade of end pilasters and intermediate orders (columns on the Hudson Street facade and pilasters on the other two facades) resting on a balustrade. Each bay contains a brick arch with a scrolled keystone into which two stories of tripartite windows and an embellished metal spandrel are inserted. A deep metal roof cornice with anthemion cresting tops the building.
The building was occupied by the offices of many import-export firms; canning and packing companies; stationers and printers; candy, nut, and dried fruit companies; merchants of oils,mushrooms, rice, milk products, and canned fish. In 1977 floors 2-10 were converted to residential use. The ground floor is occupied by Thom Browne New York apparel.
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Coordinates: 40°43'8"N 74°0'30"W
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