CONTEMPORARY NY
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Ansonia Court / originally Ansonia Clock Company Factory

architect

Hurley & Farinella, architects. Zion & Breen, landscape architects.

location

420 12th St., bet. Seventh and Eighth Aves.

date

1881. Remodeled, 1982

style

 

type

Factory

construction

brick

notes

Here 1,500 workers toiled in the world’s largest clock factory. The brick functionalist tradition in 19th-century industrial building forms a handsome low-key envelope for apartments surrounding a central landscaped garden court.

 

 

 

 

 

contact

nyc-architecture.com

  with thanks to "The AIA Guide to New York",