[Office building and factory for Mr. A. Trenkmann New York City] / DeLemos & Cordes, Architects, 1890-1895

Summary Information

Description

Scope and content

August Trenkmann purchased the lots located between Centre, Broome and Lafayette Streets (originally Elm Street) in New York City at different times during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Trenkmann constructed buildings on five of the seven lots. This small collection represents two of those buildings, both designed by DeLemos & Cordes, Architects. For the 7-story factory building at Nos. 247-249 Centre Street and 167-171 Elm Street, the collection consists of Specifications of the Iron Work and Materials (1890). For the 7-story office building on the southwest corner of Broome and Centre Streets (403 Broome Street), the collection includes Specification for the Steam Power, Heating and Ventilating Apparatus and Article of Agreement between Trenkmann and Jackson Architectural Iron Works (1895).

Publication Date

1890-1895

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

This collection is available for use by appointment in the Department of Drawings & Archives, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. For further information and to make an appointment, please email avery-drawings@library.columbia.edu.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Accession number--1000.111.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

Subject Headings

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Place
New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
SoHo (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
SoHo (New York, N.Y.) -- History	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Subject
Architectural ironwork -- New York (State) -- New York	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Factories -- New York (State) -- New York	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Ironwork -- New York (State) -- New York	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID
Office buildings -- New York (State) -- New York	CLIO Catalog	ArchiveGRID