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Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A. (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / William Street, 1
 office building, Neoclassical (architecture), 1907_construction

157-foot, 11-story neo-Classical office building completed in 1907. Designed by Francis H. Kimball and Julian C. Levi for investment bank J. & W. Seligman Company, it has an 11-story addition on the west end, designed by Gino Valle and completed in 1986. The original building is clad in rusticated limestone. The two principalfacades on William and South William Streets are nearly symmetrical (the former is five bays and the latter is seven bays), while the Stone Street facade (four bays) has slight variations in its articulation.

The primary corner of the 2-story base is rounded. The water table is clad in granite. A dentiled cornice caps 2nd floor. The base, together with the transitional 3rd floor, on each principal facade is treated as a "frontispiece," with tall ground-story windows with bracketed entablatures embellished with lions heads and ornamental metal railings; rectangular second-story windows with ornamental metal railings; and 3rd-floor windows with entablatures flanking a central window with a heavy segmental pediment with an elaborately sculpted cartouche. The corner entrance, with a surround of Levanto marble edged with a rope molding, dates from the 1929 alteration. It has double metal-and-glass doors, decorative iron gates, a transom with a decorative iron grille, shallow curved granite steps, a 2nd-story decorative iron grille, and a flagpole atop the cornice. Nearly continuous ornamental metal areaway railings date from the original construction and from the 1929 alteration. An entrance at the west end of the South William Street facade has a bracketed entablature, double metal-and-glass doors and a transom with a decorative iron grille (1929), and steps. The base on Stone Street is a variation of the other two facades, without the "frontispiece" treatment, but with two 3rd-story windows with entablatures.

The primary corner of the 6-story midsection is rounded, capped by a window with a sculpted cartouche pediment. Most of the rectangular window s have lintels with voussoirs; those on the 7th floor have entablatures elaborated with cartouches, as well as bracketed shelf sills. The primary corner of the 3-story upper section is complex in shape (a curved wall at the juncture of a reentrant angle) above the 8th floor. The 9th & 10th floors have colonnades on the principal facades and stylized pilasters on Stone Street, above bracketed balconies (also supported by heads). The colonnades were partially reconstructed in 1992. The top floor has small square windows. A round tempietto-form tower rises above the primary corner. High roof parapets are pierced by bull's-eyes on the ends. A rooftop addition for water tanks was constructed in the 1980s.

The major 11-story addition at the west end by Gino Valle was constructed between 1982-86. It is clad in banded limestone and black granite. The southern corner, half-round (with a squared base), is terminated by a round ornamental openwork-metal turret. There are double metal entrance doors on South William Street and a service entrance on Stone Street. On the 9th & 10th floors of Mill Lane and
South William Street are sections with metal spandrel panels suggestive of the colonnaded sections of the original building. Curved metal roof ornaments mimic the bull's-eyes of the parapets of the original building.

Investment bank Lehman Brothers purchased the building in 1928 and remained until 1980. Banca Commerciale Italiana, one of Italy's largest banks, bought the building in 1981. Through a series of mergers and name changes, the company is now known as Intesa Sanpaolo.

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Coordinates:   40°42'17"N   74°0'36"W
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