{"nrhp_refnum":"04001532","name":"American Thread Building","other_names":["Wool Exchange Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"260 W. Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.72056420600006,"lon":-74.00572598899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-01-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An 11-story Renaissance Revival commercial building at 260 West Broadway at Beach Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan, built 1894-96 as the Wool Exchange Building to designs by William B. Tubby.","why_significant":"It is significant under Criterion A as an example of the late 19th-century commercial exchanges of lower Manhattan, built to organize the New York wool trade. It is significant under Criterion C as a largely intact commercial building by the noted architect William B. Tubby, with ornate interiors including a banking hall and mosaic lobby.","narrative":"Rising eleven stories at the corner of West Broadway and Beach Street in TriBeCa, this Renaissance Revival building was erected in 1894-96 as the Wool Exchange Building. Architect William B. Tubby designed it with Roman brick, Indiana limestone and a curving corner entrance vestibule decorated with glass-tile mosaics. The Macnaughtan family conceived it as a single home for the wool trade, combining an auction house, exhibition rooms, a bank, a warehouse, a post office and a dining club, in an effort to challenge Boston's dominance of the market. The wool venture faltered within a few years, and the American Thread Company, already a major tenant, bought the building in 1901 and stayed until the 1960s, giving the building its lasting name. Converted to condominiums in 1980, it retains its lobby, a former banking hall and parts of the Wool Club interiors, though its projecting roofline cornice is gone.","period_of_significance":"1894-1954","architect_builder":"Tubby, William B.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Upper floors have been converted to condominium apartments; the original crowning cornice has been removed, but the building survives largely intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.587589-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04001532.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001532/18701caa1c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001532/18701caa1c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Jazz Guy from New Jersey, United States","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Great_Day_in_New_York,_New_York_(3604809447).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jazz Guy from New Jersey, United States</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Great_Day_in_New_York,_New_York_(3604809447).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319253","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Thread_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4745252"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/american-thread-building-04001532/"}