{"nrhp_refnum":"00001160","name":"New York Evening Post Building","other_names":["75 West Street"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"75 West St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70900061800006,"lon":-74.01451614299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-09-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Communications","Social History","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A seventeen-story Art Deco brick building at 75 West Street in Lower Manhattan, built in 1926 as the headquarters and printing plant of the New York Evening Post, now used as apartments with retail space.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant under Criteria A and C. It housed the New York Evening Post from 1926 to 1970, a newspaper founded in 1801 that influenced local and national politics. It is also a rare commercial and Art Deco work by Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer, with notable terra cotta ornament.","narrative":"Rising seventeen stories above West Street in Lower Manhattan, this Art Deco building was completed in 1926 as the home of the New York Evening Post, which occupied it until 1970. Designed by Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer, it has beige brick walls, a limestone base over a granite water table, and setbacks beginning at the seventh floor. Terra cotta trim made by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company and the Guastavino Tile Company includes foliate plaques, lion plaques and brightly glazed geometric panels on the upper floors. The newspaper, founded in 1801 with Alexander Hamilton among its founders, campaigned against slavery under William Cullen Bryant and later criticized Senator Joseph McCarthy. The building is regarded as a rare commercial work by Trumbauer and a rare Art Deco design from his firm. The exterior remains largely intact, the main lobby and elevator lobbies survive, and the upper floors have been converted to apartments.","period_of_significance":"1926-1950","architect_builder":"Trumbauer, Horace","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Now used as an apartment building with a health club and retail space on the ground floor; described as in excellent condition with little exterior alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.852665-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/00001160.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001160/1caa4fd6b4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00001160/1caa4fd6b4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny-evening-post-75-west.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ny-evening-post-75-west.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Evening_Post_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11681268"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/new-york-evening-post-building-00001160/"}