{"nrhp_refnum":"77000963","name":"Old New York Evening Post Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"20 Vessy St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.71203981900004,"lon":-74.00964114599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-08-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A thirteen-story commercial building at 20 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan, across from St. Paul's churchyard, built in 1906 as the publishing office of the New York Evening Post and designed by Robert D. Kohn.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an unusual example of the Germanic or geometric phase of Art Nouveau, anticipating the Art Deco taste of the 1920s. It is also tied to the Evening Post, described as one of the world's great newspapers. Its facade carries sculpture by Gutzon Borglum and Estelle Rombold Kohn.","narrative":"Rising thirteen stories across from St. Paul's churchyard in Lower Manhattan, 20 Vesey Street was built in 1906 as the new publishing home of the New York Evening Post. Architect Robert D. Kohn gave it a steel frame, a stone-clad facade of three vertical bays, and brick side and rear walls. The top four stories carry dense ornament, including four sculptured figures in niches, cast iron balconies with repeated EP monograms, and large dormers set in a copper-clad mansard roof. Two of the sculptures were made by Gutzon Borglum and two by Estelle Rombold Kohn. The building is regarded as an unusual expression of the Germanic or geometric phase of Art Nouveau, hinting at the Art Deco taste of the 1920s. It also recalls a newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton and shaped by editors William Cullen Bryant and Edwin Lawrence Godkin. The street level, lobby and offices have been modernized, though much of the interior remains unaltered.","period_of_significance":"1906","architect_builder":"Robert Kohn","architectural_style":"Germanic or geometric phase of Art Nouveau (also noted as eclectic)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in commercial use; condition listed as excellent and altered, with later changes to the street-level facade, lobby and offices but much of the interior unaltered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.082612-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000963.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000963/4bdb7fb202-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000963/4bdb7fb202-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Evening_Post_Building_from_below.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Evening_Post_Building_from_below.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319804","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_New_York_Evening_Post_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4993354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/old-new-york-evening-post-building-77000963/"}