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    Jacques Ely Kahn-Designed Manufacturing Building City’s Newest Individual Landmark

    Designation  •  SoHo, Manhattan
    The Holland Plaza Building, 75 Varick Street, Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    The Holland Plaza Building, 75 Varick Street, Manhattan. Image Credit: LPC.

    Modern classical structure, completed in 1930, was built as part of an industrial development of the area following the opening of the Holland Tunnel. On August 6, 2013, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the Holland Plaza Building, at 75 Varick Street in Manhattan, as an individual landmark. The 1930 building was designed by Jacques Ely Kahn, a prolific New York-based architect who was also responsible for the Municipal Asphalt Plant, and the interior of the Film Center Building, both designated as City landmarks. The structure occupies an irregular, triangle-shaped block bounded by Varick, Canal and Watts Streets.

    The building stands at 18 stories tall, and is characterized by its stark structural grid.

    Developer Abe Adelson, a frequent patron of Kahn’s, commissioned the building. The neighborhood underwent a period of rapid industrial growth when the Holland tunnel, which opened in 1929, made the area a transportation hub. The early Modern building clearly reads as industrial, with little external ornamentation. The building’s style comes from emphasis on its structural grid with its interplay of masonry vertical piers and horizontal textured spandrels, projecting rusticated piers at the pedestrian entrances.

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    Tags : 75 Varick Street, Abe Adelson, Holland Plaza Building, Jacques Ely Kahn, Special Hudson Square District, Trinity Church, Trinity Real Estate
    Date:08/12/2013
    Category : Landmarks Preservation Commission
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