Architect
Commercial, hotel, and institutional work that spans lower Manhattan gravitas and Midtown polish.
Trowbridge & Livingston's work ranges from 14 Wall Street to the Knickerbocker Hotel and New York Society Library. Compare how each building addresses its street and institutional role.
10 building histories
Commercial · 1910-12
14 Wall Street, New York, NY
The 14 Wall Street Building, with its distinctive pyramidal roof, is one of the great towers that define the lower Manhattan skyline. Located in the heart of the financial district, the building was erected in 1910-12...
Read the storyResidential · 1913-14
49 E 68th Street, New York, NY
This house adjoins and may be considered a part of that outstanding group of neo-Federal townhouses which extends along the west side of Park Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets. The houses on Park Avenue are...
Read the storyCommercial · 1905-13
371 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The dignified B. Altman & Company Building, located at the northeast corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, is a distinguished design by Trowbridge & Livingston and one of the flagship department stores of Fifth...
Read the storyFirehouse · 1904-05
104 Duane Street, New York, NY
The Engine Company No. 7/Hook & Ladder Company No.1 Firehouse, designed in the Beaux-Arts style --or what at the time was described as the "modern French" style -. by the prominent architectural firm of Trowbridge &...
Read the storyCommercial · 1913
23 Wall Street, New York, NY
This large, low building consists of three stories and a blind attic. The Morgan Building is a building which displays many handsome classical details, yet because of its broad smooth wall surfaces, great windows and...
Read the storyResidential · 1909-11
11 E 91st Street, New York, NY
The restrained elegance of this distinguished house, built in 1909-11, is a simplified expression of French Beaux-Arts Classicism. The architects, S. B. Parkman Trowbridge and Goodhue Livingston, were the senior members...
Read the storyMuseum · 1874 onward; first building opened 1877
Central Park West & West 77th Street, New York, NY
The American Museum of Natural History opened its first building on this site in 1877. Designed by Vaux & Mould, it was later enclosed by additions. The long Romanesque Revival front on West 77th Street is the work of...
Read the storyHotel · 1906
1470 Broadway, New York, NY
The Knickerbocker Hotel is one of the very few grand hotels in the Beaux-Arts style surviving in the Times Square area. Designed in 1901 by the firm of Marvin & Davis with the well-known Bruce Price as consulting...
Read the storyLibrary · 1916-17
53 East 79th Street, New York, NY
The New York Society Library occupies a mansion of exceptional architectural character and distinction. This five-story limestone structure in the Italian Renaissance Style has great dignity. Trowbridge and Livingston,...
Read the storyHotel · 1901-04
703 5th Avenue, New York, NY
The St. Regis Hotel is one of the most elegant and sophisticated Beaux-Arts style buildings in New York. Among the oldest of the early "skyscraper" hotels, it rises nineteen stories above the intersection of Fifth...
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