Architect
Banking halls, institutional buildings, and apartment work in a polished classical register.
York & Sawyer designed banking and institutional buildings across Manhattan. The former Greenwich Savings Bank, Federal Reserve Bank, and Bowery Bank show how the firm approached different scales and settings.
6 building histories
Bank · 1900-02
126 Bowery, New York, NY
Completed in 1902, the Bowery Bank of New York is the earliest surviving building by the architectural firm of York & Sawyer in New York City. Located at the northwest corner of the Bowery and Grand Street, it is...
Read the storyBank · 1921-23
110 East 42nd Street, New York, NY
The Bowery Savings Bank Building, designed by the distinguished architectural firm of York & Sawyer, was built in 1921-23, with an addition dating from 1931-33. This imposing structure marked the expansion of the bank...
Read the storyBank · 1926-28
2108 Broadway, New York, NY
The Central Savings Bank, built in 1926-28, was designed by the architectural firm of York & Sawyer in the manner of a grand Italian Renaissance palace.
Read the storyCivic · 1924
33 Liberty Street, New York, NY
This enormous building occupies an entire city block; it is fourteen stories high and has five stories below grade. The remarkable stone exterior is reminiscent of an early Italianate Renaissance palace with the...
Read the storyBank · 1922-24
1362 Broadway, New York, NY
Haier America acquired the building in 2002.
Read the storyCarriage House · 1902-03
213 West 58th Street, New York, NY
The former Helen Miller Gould Stable, an early work of the noted firm of York & Sawyer, is an eminently pure example of the late French Renaissance style and set an exceptionally high standard of carriage house design....
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