Times Building Design

The Times Building at 41 Park Row as designed. Drawing published in the Scientific American, August 25, 1888. At the time the building was still under construction, which had begun on January 23 and the new structure was completed in April 1889. The Times and its staff continued to occupy their old quarters during the construction of the new building and the news paper continued to be printed inside the premises.

This early skyscraper was designed by George Browne Post (1837-1913) in Romanesque revival style. It included a mansard roof with gabled dormers. The fronts were built of rusticated Indiana limestone blocks above a gray Maine granite base. The façades details include compound colonnettes, roll moldings, miniature balustrades and foliate reliefs.

In 1904, the building was again expanded to a 16-story skyscraper, but was turned into an office building for tenants once the Times was moved to Times Square in early 1905. This is one of the last remnants of Newspaper Row, the center of newspaper publishing in New York City from the 1830s to the 1920s. In 1999, the building was designated as a New York City landmark.