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NYC - Battery: Whitehall Building
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The twenty-story Whitehall Building (1-17 West Street & 17 Battery Place), named for Peter Stuyvesant's seventeenth-century house that had been located nearby, was constructed in 1902-04 and designed by the preeminent turn-of -the-century architect Henry J. Hardenbergh. This highly visible site at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, overlooking Battery Park, inspired the architect to create a building with bold design features and a dramatic color scheme. Built as a speculative office tower by the real estate and development firm of Robert A. and William H. Chesebrough, the building was an immediate success and the developers began plans to build an addition. They hired the prolific architectural firm of Clinton & Russell to design a thirty-one-story addition facing West Street, with a tower overlooking the original building. Constructed in 1908-10, the Greater Whitehall, as the addition was called, was the largest office structure in the city at the time of its completion. The building's huge size coupled with its location on landfill at the edge of Manhattan island created the need for unusual types of foundations and methods for their installation. The elegant limestone facade, designed in a neo-Renaissance style with a traditional organization of base, shaft, and capital complements the original structure. Together the two sections of the building create a dramatic visual introduction to the towers of Manhattan.
The Whitehall building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2000.
Clyde J. McCary
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Clyde J. McCary, one of the most enterprising and successful of the young business men of Birmingham, is a native of Alabama.
He was born near Montgomery, August 8, 1861. His family name originated in Scotland, and their descendants were settlers in the early days of the republic.
The parents of our subject were Dr. J. M. and Hertaline E. (Motley) McCary, both being natives of Alabama. His father, a successful physician, entered the Southern service early in the war, and was killed in battle near Atlanta, Georgia, in the year 1863, leaving his mother and himself, an only son.
The subject of this sketch attended school until he was fifteen years old, when he kept books for his stepfather, J. P. Allen, at Jemison, Alabama. At the end of the year he attended Goodman's Commercial College at Nashville Tennessee, where he graduated in 1877. He then went to Montgomery, Alabama, and accepted a position as bill clerk for Goetter, Weil & Co., a large wholesale dry goods house. By hard work and faithful attention to his duties he won the good will of his employers, and was promoted from one position to another. In about two years the Pratt Saw Mill Company of Verbena, Alabama, recognizing his superior business qualities, offered him a good position at an advanced salary, which he accepted, and remained there two years. He returned to Montgomery and accepted a position with Hobbie & Teague, wholesale grocers, where he made many friends in the Capital City and throughout the State.
In June, 1884, Mr. McCary concluded to branch out into the world for himself, and located in the city of Anniston, in the real estate, commission, and insurance business, where, by his indomitable energy, pleasant address, and superior business qualities, he established a fine paying business, and won the confidence of the companies, houses and parties whom he represented.
But Anniston was too small a place for such an enterprising and active gentleman as Mr. McCary, so he came to Birmingham, and in June, 1886, he accepted a partnership in the firm of J. R. Adams & Co., savings bank, real estate, and insurance agents.
On the 1st of September last, Mr. McCary withdrew from the firm and opened up for himself, under the firm name of C J. McCary & Co., at 1924 First Avenue, "ground floor." He fitted up his office in elegant style, making it one of the most convenient and attractive real estate and insurance offices in the city.
Mr. McCary has displayed such fine business tact and energy, and by his integrity and fidelity to the Interest of his patrons, that he has made a host of friends in the Magic City, and his business has grown to large proportions. He is one of the most thorough and reliable business men in Birmingham, and he has, in a very short period, accumulated a handsome fortune.
On January 1st, of this year, Mr. McCary associated with him as a partner, Mr. John S. Storrs, late with the Shelby Iron Company, Shelby Iron Works, Alabama, and the firm is now McCary, Storrs & Co.
Seldom are found, associated in one business, two men with such energy and fine business qualifications, and by their hard work, ability, and integrity, they have been wonderfully successful.
A few minutes in their offices, watching the eager inquiries for real estate, stocks and bonds, recalls very forcibly scenes in the New York Exchange.
- from Jefferson County and Birmingham Alabama: History and Biographical, edited by John Witherspoon Dubose and published in 1887 by Teeple & Smith / Caldwell Printing Works, Birmingham, Alabama
NYC - Battery: Whitehall Building
Image by wallyg
The twenty-story Whitehall Building (1-17 West Street & 17 Battery Place), named for Peter Stuyvesant's seventeenth-century house that had been located nearby, was constructed in 1902-04 and designed by the preeminent turn-of -the-century architect Henry J. Hardenbergh. This highly visible site at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, overlooking Battery Park, inspired the architect to create a building with bold design features and a dramatic color scheme. Built as a speculative office tower by the real estate and development firm of Robert A. and William H. Chesebrough, the building was an immediate success and the developers began plans to build an addition. They hired the prolific architectural firm of Clinton & Russell to design a thirty-one-story addition facing West Street, with a tower overlooking the original building. Constructed in 1908-10, the Greater Whitehall, as the addition was called, was the largest office structure in the city at the time of its completion. The building's huge size coupled with its location on landfill at the edge of Manhattan island created the need for unusual types of foundations and methods for their installation. The elegant limestone facade, designed in a neo-Renaissance style with a traditional organization of base, shaft, and capital complements the original structure. Together the two sections of the building create a dramatic visual introduction to the towers of Manhattan.
The Whitehall building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 2000.
