JeffReuben
Four Periods of Publicity 20 Vesey Street
The old New York Evening Post building at 20 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City was completed in 1907. It was the headquarters of the Evening Post (today's New York Post) from 1907 to 1927. The building has housed other periodicals and a variety of other organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It also housed the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) during the 1980s. (Not surprisingly, it is both a designated NYC Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.) Today the building is still used for offices and houses the National 9/11 Memorial Preview Site.
The building faces the graveyard of St. Paul's Chapel, allowing for a full view of its facade from a publicly-accessible location, unusual for a Lower Manhattan side street.
In 1907, the building's architect R.D. Kohn wrote an article about the just completed building for Architects' and Builders' Magazine. The piece, "The New Evening Post Building," in the September 1907 issue, included Kohn's description of the statues shown in this 2015 photo.
"At the level of the ninth story are four heroic-sized statues in limestone, typifying in a way the "four periods of publicity." The first, "By spoken word," is represented by a male figure leaning forward listening; the second, "By written text," is typified by a monk; the third, "By printed text," appears as a printer of the period of Guttenberg, while the fourth, "Indicative of potentialities of the newspaper," shows an editor in modern garb. Two of the figures were executed by Gutzon Borglum and two by Estelle Rumbold Rohn."
For more information on this and other sites related to New York City newspaper history, please see my article "The Ghosts of Newspapers Past: 15 Former Locations of NYC Newspaper Headquarters" on Untapped Cities at:
untappedcities.com/2015/12/14/the-ghosts-of-newspapers-pa...
Four Periods of Publicity 20 Vesey Street
The old New York Evening Post building at 20 Vesey Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City was completed in 1907. It was the headquarters of the Evening Post (today's New York Post) from 1907 to 1927. The building has housed other periodicals and a variety of other organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It also housed the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) during the 1980s. (Not surprisingly, it is both a designated NYC Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.) Today the building is still used for offices and houses the National 9/11 Memorial Preview Site.
The building faces the graveyard of St. Paul's Chapel, allowing for a full view of its facade from a publicly-accessible location, unusual for a Lower Manhattan side street.
In 1907, the building's architect R.D. Kohn wrote an article about the just completed building for Architects' and Builders' Magazine. The piece, "The New Evening Post Building," in the September 1907 issue, included Kohn's description of the statues shown in this 2015 photo.
"At the level of the ninth story are four heroic-sized statues in limestone, typifying in a way the "four periods of publicity." The first, "By spoken word," is represented by a male figure leaning forward listening; the second, "By written text," is typified by a monk; the third, "By printed text," appears as a printer of the period of Guttenberg, while the fourth, "Indicative of potentialities of the newspaper," shows an editor in modern garb. Two of the figures were executed by Gutzon Borglum and two by Estelle Rumbold Rohn."
For more information on this and other sites related to New York City newspaper history, please see my article "The Ghosts of Newspapers Past: 15 Former Locations of NYC Newspaper Headquarters" on Untapped Cities at:
untappedcities.com/2015/12/14/the-ghosts-of-newspapers-pa...