{"nrhp_refnum":"80002688","name":"Federal Reserve Bank of New York","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"33 Liberty St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.70915748200008,"lon":-74.00968383099996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-05-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fourteen-story limestone and sandstone bank building at 33 Liberty Street in the financial district of downtown Manhattan, occupying an entire city block. It was built 1918-24 to designs by York & Sawyer.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the most impressive buildings in the city, with fine proportions, masonry and ironwork. York & Sawyer won the commission in a competition and modeled the design on the fifteenth-century Palazzo Strozzi to convey stability and integrity. It houses the largest district bank of the Federal Reserve system and is one of the largest banks in the world.","narrative":"Fourteen stories tall, with five more below ground, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York fills an entire block at 33 Liberty Street in lower Manhattan. Built between 1918 and 1924, it is faced in limestone and sandstone over a steel frame. Architects York & Sawyer won the commission through a competition and drew on the fifteenth-century Palazzo Strozzi in Italy, using deeply rusticated stone at the base, a regular central section of paired windows, and a set-back top with an open arcade. Wrought-iron lamps, window grilles and bronze window frames were made by Philadelphia craftsman Samuel Yellin. Inside, a vaulted entrance hall leads to a banking room divided by ornamental iron tellers' cages. The building was valued for its fine masonry and ironwork, its fortress-like solidity and its adaptation of a compact Renaissance palace form to a very large early twentieth-century structure. It remains the home of the largest district bank in the Federal Reserve system.","period_of_significance":"1918-1924","architect_builder":"York & Sawyer","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as in excellent condition, unaltered, on its original site, and occupied; most of the interior is closed to the public for security reasons.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.223969-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002688.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002688/767f7b8d7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002688/767f7b8d7c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York_from_west.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:2015_Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York_from_west.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"05000988","name":"Fulton-Nassau Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/fulton-nassau-historic-district-05000988/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319483","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4635209"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/federal-reserve-bank-of-new-york-80002688/"}