Building at 116 John Street New York, New York
National Register of Historic Places Data
Building at 116 John Street has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000331
- Date Listed
- June 20, 2014
- Name
- Building at 116 John Street
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 116 John St.
- City/Town
- New York
- County
- New York
- State
- New York
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- COMMERCE; ARCHITECTURE
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
116 John Street is significant under National Register Criterion A for its association with the development of New York's Insurance District, a sub-section of Lower Manhattan's Financial District. This area began to develop in the 1880s when large insurance companies converged north of Wall Street and grew rapidly through the first decades of the 20th century as tall office buildings were developed there for insurance interests, replacing swaths of older low-rise buildings that had previously defined the downtown city blocks. Completed in 1931, 116 John Street was a speculative office building, designed specifically for insurance companies in the heart of New York City's insurance district, an area strategically located near the New York Board of Fire Underwriters at 85 John Street as well as the financial center of Wall Street. The Art Deco building, designed by Louis Allen Abramson, is also significant Criterion C as a representative example of the final group of skyscrapers erected in New York City after the building boom of the 1920s and before the skyscraper explosion of the post-war period, when corporate modernism became the reigning design aesthetic.
