{"nrhp_refnum":"82003376","name":"Former New York Life Insurance Company Building","other_names":["Building at 346 Broadway"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"346 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.71630834000007,"lon":-74.00318458999999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve- and thirteen-story office building occupying a full block at 346 Broadway in Manhattan's Civic Center area, built in 1894-97 for the New York Life Insurance Company in a neo-Italian Renaissance style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the building exemplifies the palazzo mode as applied to late nineteenth-century skyscrapers. It is the work of two architectural firms: Stephen D. Hatch designed the eastern section and McKim, Mead & White (credited to Stanford White) designed the western section with its clock tower. It is also a striking symbol of the New York Life Insurance Company.","narrative":"Occupying an entire block at 346 Broadway, this former insurance headquarters rises twelve stories at its western end and thirteen at the east, following the slope of the street. It was built in two phases: Stephen D. Hatch designed the eastern section in 1894-96, and after his death McKim, Mead & White, with Stanford White credited as designer, completed the western section in 1896-97. White replaced an earlier building by Griffith Thomas with a Renaissance-inspired entrance pavilion crowned by a four-faced clock tower. The facades use rusticated marble, regular bays, bandcourses and heavy cornices, an arrangement known as the palazzo mode, which offered a logical way to organize ever taller buildings. Inside, the Leonard Street entrance hall and the former banking room survive with marble walls and coffered ceilings. The building is now city-owned and houses municipal offices and family court rooms. The clock was restored in 1979 and remains a landmark along Broadway.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific dates 1894-97)","architect_builder":"Stephen D. Hatch; McKim, Mead & White","architectural_style":"Neo-Italian Renaissance (palazzo mode)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of New York and houses municipal offices and family court courtrooms; the clock tower holds an art gallery and the clock was restored to working order in 1979. The classification section also lists the property as unoccupied and vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.208763-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003376.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003376/2dea33ae23-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003376/2dea33ae23-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clock_Tower_Building.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clock_Tower_Building.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319509","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108_Leonard","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5470109"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/former-new-york-life-insurance-company-building-82003376/"}