New York Architecture

1700s | 1810s | 1820s | 1830s | 1840s | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s

1700s

Fraunces Tavern Museum (1719, 1906)

Saint Paul Chapel, Trinity Church, Peter Harrison (1766)

1810s

New York City Hall, Joseph-Franćois Mangin & John McComb Jr (1811)

St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, Joseph-François Mangin, Henry Englebert (1815)

1830s

General Electric Building (aka 570 Lexington Avenue), Cross & Cross (1931)

Colonade Row (aka LaGrange Terrace), Seth Geer (1832)

1840s

Federal Hall, Alexander Jackson Davis and John Frazer (1842)

Trinity Church, Richard Upjohn, Charles Babcock, Frederick Clarke Withers (1846)

Grace Church, James Renwick Jr. (1846)

1850s

St. Luke’s Place (block of townhouses, early 1850s)

Cooper Union Foundation Building, Fred A. Petersen (1859)

1860s

Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, Calvert Vaux (1864)

1870s

Queen of Greene Street, Isaac Duckworth (1873)

75 1/2 Bedford Street (aka Millay House), Joshua Isaacs (1873)

Western Union Telegraph Building, George B. Post (1875)

1880s

Tweed Courthouse, Leopold Eidlitz, John Kellum & Thomas Little (1881)

The National Arts Club / Samuel J. Tilden House, Calvert Vaux (1884)

The Dakota (aka The Dakota Apartments), Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (1884)

The Morgan House Expansion, R.H. Robertson (1888)

1890s

Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Napoleon LeBrun (1895)

1900s

Algonquin Hotel, Goldwin Starrett (1902)

Flatiron Building, Daniel Burnham (1902)

The Ansonia (formerly The Ansonia Hotel), Paul Emile Duboy (1903)

New York Stock Exchange, 18 Broad Street, George B. Post (1903)

United States Custom House, Cass Gilbert & Daniel Chester French (1907)

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, Napoleon LeBrun (1909)

1910s

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library, Thomas Hastings & John Mervin Carrère (1911)

James Earl Jones Theatre (formerly Cort Theatre), Thomas W. Lamb (1912)

Woolworth Building, Cass Gilbert (1913)

Grand Masonic Lodge, Harry Percy Knowles (1913)

Grand Central Terminal, Reed and Stem, Warren and Wetmore (1913)

229 W 43rd Street (formerly The New York Times building), Mortimer J. Fox (1913), Ludlow and Peabody (1922 addition), Albert Kahn (1832 addition), Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (1947 addition)

1920s

Cunard Bulding (formerly Standard & Poor Building), Carrère and Hastings (1921)

New York Stock Exchange, 11 Wall Street, Trowbridge & Livingston (1922)

American Standard Building (formerly American Radiator Building), Raymond Hood & André Fouilhoux (1924)

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, York and Sawyer (1924)

Fred F. French Building (aka Pace University Midtown Center), H. Douglas Ives, John Sloan & Mark Robertson, Sloan & Robertson (1927)

Graybar Electric Building, Sloan & Robertson (1927)

Barclay-Vesey Building (formerly New York Telephone Company Building), Ralph Thomas Walker (1927)

The Beresford, Emery Roth (1929)

Helmsley Building, Warren and Wetmore (1929)

The Chanin Building, Sloan & Robertson (1929)

1930s

Chrysler Building, William Van Allen (1930)

The Daily News Building (aka The News Building), Raymond Hood & John Mead Howells (1930)

The San Remo, Emery Roth (1930)

Empire State Building, Shreve, Lamb and Harmon (1931)

Rockefeller Center, Raymond Hood (1939)

1940s

1950s

Seagram Building, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1950)

New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street (1954)

MetLife Building, Pietro Belluschi, Walter Gropius, Emery Roth (1959)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright (1959)

1960s

28 Liberty Street (formerly One Chase Manhattan Plaza), Gordon Bunshaft, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (1961)

TWA Terminal, Eero Saarinen (1962)

Ford Foundation Building, Kevin Roche, Roche-Dinkeloo (1967)

1970s

1980s

550 Madison Avenue (aka Sony Tower, AT&T Building), Philip Johnson and John Burgee (1984)

1990s

2000s

Rose Center for Earth and Space, American Museum of Natural History, James Polshek (2000)

Austrian Cultural Forum New York, Raimund Abraham (2002)

Time Warner Center, David Childs & Mustafa Kemal Abadan, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (2004)

New Art Museum, SANAA (2007)

New York Times Building, Renzo Piano (2007)

New York City High Line, Diller Scofido + Renfro, James Corner Field Operations (2009)

2010s

Jewelbox Building for the Restored Jane’s Carousel, Jean Nouvel (2011)

4 World Trade Center, Fumihiko Maki (2013)

Fulton Center, Nicholas Grimshaw & James Carpenter Design Associates (2014)

One World Trade Center, Skimmer, Owings & Merrill (2015)

The Whitney Museum of American Art at Gansevoort, Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Cooper Robertson (2015)

Spring Street Salt Shed, Dattner Architects (2015)

One World Observatory (2015)

53rd Street Public Library, Enrique Norten, TEN Architects (2016)

VIA 57 West, Bjarke Engels Group (2016)

World Trade Center Transportation Hub (aka The Oculus), Santiago Calatrava (2016)

56 Leonard Street, Herzon & de Meuron (2017)

MoMA Expansion, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler (2017, 2019)

520 West 28th, Zaha Hadid Architects (2018)

Dalmation and Taxi Sculpture, Donald Lipski (2018)

The Shed, a Center for the Arts, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (2019)

Hunters Point Library, Steven Holl Architects (2019)

Apple Store Fifth Avenue, Foster + Partners (2019)

10, 30, 55 Hudson Yards, KPF (2019)

Vessel Public Landmark, Heatherwick Studio (2019)

2020s

The Smile Residential Building, Bjarke Ingels Group (2020)

SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, KPF (2020)

Little Island Park, Heatherwick Studio + MNLA (2021)

111 West 57th Street (aka Steinway Tower), SHoP Architects (2021)

Moynihan Train Hall, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (2021)

The Bryant Tower, David Chipperfield Architects (2021)