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Identification
Official name Bayard-Condict Building
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Emporis Building Number 116162
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Location
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Bordering street Bleecker Street
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Neighborhood Greenwich Village
Borough Manhattan
City New York City
State New York
Country U.S.A.
 
Technical Data
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Height (struct.) 49 m 162 ft
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Floors (OG) 13
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Construction end 1899
 
Building in General
Type of construction high-rise building
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Facts
- The curtain wall of terra cotta that expresses the inner steel skeleton was a radical departure from the heavy masonry of building in this period.
- This tall building is the only example of Sullivan's work in New York.
- The surface of the spandrels is suppressed behind the piers and mullions.
- With this building, Sullivan revolutionized the way architects think about tall buildings.
- As a full-bred representative of the "Chicago School" style it has the typical vertical accentuation by pilasters ending in ornamental friezes underneath the extruding cornices.

Companies involved in this Building*
Architect: Lyndon P. Smith , Louis H. Sullivan

Other companies: Shulsky Properties, Inc..