Engineers' Club Building

Manhattan, United States

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The Engineers' Club Building, located at 32 West 40th Street on the southern edge of Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, is a neo-Renaissance residential structure completed in 1907. Designed by Henry D. Whitfield and Beverly S. King of the firm Whitfield & King, the building features a tripartite facade: a rusticated stone base with a Corinthian colonnade spanning three stories, a seven-story shaft of brick with stone quoins, and a double-height loggia crowned by a modillioned cornice. Originally constructed as a clubhouse for the Engineers' Club—a social organization founded in 1888—the building originally contained 66 bedrooms and club meeting rooms. Partially funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1904, it was designed following an architectural competition held after the Engineers' Club declined to share facilities with other engineering societies. The building served its original purpose until 1979, thereafter converting to residential use and becoming the cooperative apartment Bryant Park Place in 1983. It was designated a New York City Landmark in 2011 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Architect

Whitfield & King

Movement

Neoclassical architecture

Built: 1907
Type: residential building
Heritage: New York State Register of Historic Places listed place, New York City Landmark
Place: Manhattan, United States

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