New York City Landmark, 41 Park Row Building

This is the 41 Park Row Building, former Times Building, a New York City Landmark. View from the northeast showing Spruce Street (Printing House Square) and Nassau Street façades. Photo by Carl Forster. Source: Landmarks Preservation Commission March 16, 1999.

Below, the "Findings and Designation" from the Landmarks Preservation Commission report:

«On the basis of a careful consideration of the history, the architecture, and other features of this building, the Landmarks Preservation Commission finds that the former New York Times Building has a special character and a special historical and aesthetic interest and value as part of the development, heritage and cultural characteristics of New York City.

The Commission further finds that, among its important qualities, the (former) New York Times Building, erected in 1888-89 as the home of the New York Times, is one of the last remnants of Newspaper Row, the center of newspaper publishing in New York City from the 1830s to the 1920s; that this building, described in King's Handbook of New York (1892) as "the Times expressed in stone," survives today as a tangible reminder of the early history of one of the world's great newspapers; that the former Times Building was designed by the pioneering skyscraper designer George B. Post and is his sole remaining office building in the downtown area; that Post, the country's pre-eminent architect-engineer, achieved a major technological feat with this commission which required him to incorporate the floor framing from the Times's five-story 1857 building so newspaper operations could continue on site while the new building was under construction; that the Times Building was Post's first in the Richardsonian Romanesque idiom and was considered "a masterpiece of the Romanesque style;" that its rusticated limestone and granite facades are articulated in a complex composition featuring a series of impressive arcades and carefully-scaled details including compound colonnettes, roll moldings, miniature balustrades, foliate reliefs, and gargoyles; that after the Times relocated to Times Square in 1904 the building was raised from thirteen to sixteen stories by Robert Maynicke who matched Post's original design in material and articulation; that it continued to function as an office building until 1951 , when it was acquired by Pace University for part of its Manhattan campus; that with its three highly visible facades on Park Row, Nassau Street, and Spruce Street facing Printing House Square, the former New York Times Building remains a prominent presence in New York's civic center.

Accordingly, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 74, Section 3020 of the Charter of the City of New York and Chapter 3 of Title 25 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designates as a Landmark the (former) New York Times Building, 41 Park Row (aka 39-43 Park Row and 147-151 Nassau Street), Borough of Manhattan, and designates Borough of Manhattan Tax Map Block 101, Lot 2, as its Landmark Site.»