650 Broadway (New York City, New York)

 office building  Add category

 Upload a photo

5-story Italianate office building completed in 1860 as a store-and-loft building for prominent New Yorker Hamilton Fish. Fish served as state governor from 1847-48, senator from 1851-53, and Secretary of State for President Ulysses S. Grant from 1869-77. He was also a trustee of Columbia College and president of the Union League Club. After his death, the building remained in possession of his heirs until at least 1901, housing small manufacturers.

It is four bays wide, with yellow-painted, fluted cast-iron Corinthian columns and pilasters at the ground floor. , which is topped by a modillioned cornice. The upper floors have very slender Corinthian columns, paneled spandrels, and paneled side piers, all painted pale green. The top-floor windows are round-arched, and the building has a surmounting cornice with floral decorations, paneled fascia, and end brackets. The ground floor is occupied by a Wendy's.