DESIGNATION REPORT 826 Broadway Building (now the Strand Building) Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 512 Commission 826 Broadway Building LP-2615 June 11, 2019

DESIGNATION REPORT 826 Broadway Building (now the Strand Building) LOCATION Borough of Manhattan 826 Broadway (aka 826-828 Broadway; 57-63 East 12th Street) LANDMARK TYPE Individual SIGNIFICANCE 826 Broadway is an eleven-story store and loft building designed by William H. Birkmire in 1902. The building’s intact Renaissance Revival facade and steel skeleton-frame construction exemplify the stylistic character and technological advances in skyscraper architecture at the time it was built, and it has housed the internationally-known Strand Bookstore for over 60 years. Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List 512 Commission 826 Broadway Building LP-2615 June 11, 2019

826 Broadway, 1910 Museum of the City of New York LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COMMISSION COMMISSIONERS Lisa Kersavage, Executive Director Sarah Carroll, Chair Mark Silberman, General Counsel Frederick Bland, Vice Chair Kate Lemos McHale, Director of Research Diana Chapin Cory Herrala, Director of Preservation Wellington Chen Michael Devonshire REPORT BY Michael Goldblum Margaret Herman, Research Department John Gustafsson Anne Holford-Smith Jeanne Lutfy EDITED BY Adi Shamir-Baron Kate Lemos McHale PHOTOGRAPHS BY Sarah Moses Landmarks Preservation Designation Report Designation List # Commission 826 Broadway Building LP-2615 June 11, 2019 3 of 22

826 Broadway Building (now the and the East Village Community Coalition, and seven individuals.1 Twelve people spoke in Strand Building) opposition to the proposed designation, including the 826 Broadway (aka 826-828 Broadway; 57-63 East building’s owner. The Commission received five 12th Street), Manhattan written submissions in support of the proposed designation, including submissions from Councilmember Carlina Rivera, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, State Senators Brad Hoylman and Liz Kreuger, and State Assemblymember Deborah Glick, and from the Municipal Art Society Designation List 512 of New York and the Victorian Society of New LP-2615 York. The Commission received three written submissions in opposition to designation. Built: 1902 On February 19, 2019, the Landmarks Architect: William H. Birkmire Preservation Commission held a second public hearing on the proposed designation of the 826 Landmark Site: Borough of Manhattan, Tax Map Broadway Building (now the Strand Building) as a Block 564, Lot 34 New York City Landmark, and on the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. Calendared: September 25, 2018 1). The hearing was duly advertised in accordance Public Hearings: December 4, 2018; February 19, with the provisions of the law. Seven people testified 2019 in favor of the proposed designation, including Councilmember Carlina Rivera, representatives of On September 25, 2018 the Landmarks Preservation the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Commission calendared the 826 Broadway Building Preservation, the Historic Districts Council, the New (now the Strand Building) as part of a cluster of York Landmarks Conservancy, and the Victorian buildings on Broadway between East 12th and East Society of New York, and two individuals. One 13th Streets, identified based on individual merit and individual testified with an unclear opinion. Fourteen elevated by the intact historic character of the group. people testified in opposition to the proposed On December 4, the Landmarks Preservation designation, including the building’s owner. The Commission held a public hearing on the proposed Commission received 53 written submissions in designation of the 826 Broadway Building (now the support of the proposed designation, including from Strand Building) as a New York City Landmark, and representatives of the Alliance for a Human-Scale on the proposed designation of the related Landmark City, Bowery Alliance o

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