Municipal Building

the Municipal Building and then the Manhattan Municipal Building, is a 40-story, 580-foot (180 m) building at 1 Centre Street in Manhattan, New York City, near the intersection with Chambers Street. The structure was built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of the city's five boroughs, with construction beginning in 1907 and continuing through 1914.
The Manhattan Municipal Building's construction marked the end of the City Beautiful movement in New York. William M. Kendall of the noted architectural firm McKim, Mead & White designed the building, which was the first to incorporate a subway station – the Chambers Street station, served by the J and Z trains – into its base. Enormously influential in the civic construction of other American cities, the building's architectural style has been "variously described as Roman Imperial, Italian Renaissance, French Renaissance, or Beaux-Arts."
The Municipal Building is one of the largest governmental buildings in the world. At present, the Municipal Building is home to "over 2,000 employees from a dozen municipal agencies in nearly 1 million square feet of office space."

Type

Architectural Element, Gallery

Parent Location

Financial District, Manhattan

Owning Organization

New York