Battery Maritime Building
Manhattan, United States
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Situated at South Ferry on Manhattan's southern tip, the Battery Maritime Building is a Beaux-Arts ferry terminal designed by the architectural firm Walker and Morris and constructed between 1906 and 1909. Originally conceived as the easternmost section of the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal to serve Brooklyn routes, it remains the only Exposition Universelle-style ferry building still operating in Manhattan. The structure employs a variety of architectural metals and originally featured a large waiting area on the second floor. After Brooklyn ferry service ceased in the mid-twentieth century, the building deteriorated until it began serving as a Governors Island ferry terminal in 1956. Designated a New York City Landmark in 1967 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, the exterior underwent restoration by Jan Hird Pokorny Architects between 2001 and 2005. Today the ground level operates as a functional ferry terminal, while the upper stories house the Cipriani South Street event space and Casa Cipriani, a 47-room hotel.
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- Built
- Type
- passenger ship terminal
- Heritage
- New York City Landmark, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Manhattan, United States
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