20 Pine, The Collection

 skyscraper, condominium

495-foot, 38-story Art-Deco/neo-Classical residential building completed in 1928. Designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White as the headquarters for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, a predecessor firm of J.P Morgan Chase. A 21-story addition was built onto the building's east side, along Pine Street, in 1957. The addition was designed by Alfred Easton Poor, and repeats the original tower's design. In 2009, the entire building was converted to luxury condominiums, with 409 units.

The building is freestanding, with four facades clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base with granite water table. Double-height openings line the first two floors of the base, and a narrow band course caps it. The shaft has narrow, vertical window bays, with slightly recessed, square-headed windows, defined by uninterrupted brick piers and plain brick spandrels. There are setbacks at the 16th, 22nd, 27th, and 32nd floors, leaving a tall, narrow central column just north of center, that is just two windows wide on the east side. At each setback, the topmost floor is framed above and below with a stone-faced frieze in a geometric pattern. Atop the southeast corner, above the main setback is an outdoor deck and pool that was added in the residential conversion.

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