Old Trinity Building - 1853
The old Trinity Building, at 111 Broadway, in 1853, the year it was erected. Illustration published in the Putnam's Monthly magazine, February 1853. Below, the text about the Trinity Building that accompanies the illustration above in the Putnam's Monthly:
«The engraving given above is a view of "Trinity Buildings," a structure not quite completed as yet, but sufficiently so to render it already an important feature in the lower part of the city. The material of which this pile is constructed, is unpressed Buffalo brick, of a yellowish tinge, with dressings of cut brown free-stone. The building was designed by Mr. Upjohn, and is the first example in the city of the use of the yellow brick. It is to be regretted that the un- pressed brick should have been employed, since the rough and unfinished surface which they present, makes a most unfavorable impression. We believe in bricks, even in red bricks; we are also prepared to add yellow brick to our "Credo;" but whether yellow or red, they must be the best of their kind. New-York is too handsome, and promises to be too well built, to admit of any mediocre specimens of architecture in her principal thoroughfare. There may have been difficulties in the way of procuring the best brick at the time when this range of stores was planned―of this we are not informed―but we can hardly believe it possible, and unless this were the case, there is no reason why the present quality should have been used. The color, as far as we can judge at present, is very agreeable, and harmonizes well with the brown stone of the dressing and ornaments. Our artist has done no sort of justice to any thing but the size of the building, which, when we consider the purpose for which it is designed, is truly huge. The sculptured key stones of the lowest range of window arches is merely hinted at upon the end.»
The Old Trinity Building was emptied on April 30, 1903, and razed in the early 1904 to make way for the present Trinity Building.
Building that previously occupied the site of the Trinity Building.
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Old Trinity Building - 1853
