January 17
Tags: architecture history nyc iridesco
224 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013 We work on the 3rd floor of this building, which used to be the Odd Fellows Hall.  We just found out about it, and here’s a fascinating read on the history of the building.  A snippet: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization founded to benefit the sick and orphaned, was created in England in 1812 and established in New York in 1844. After three years in a hall on Canal Street, the group began its Grand Lodge, facing Grand, Centre and Baxter Streets, in an emerging district of hotels and elite stores. It retained the architects Trench & Snook, who had just designed the A. T. Stewart store at Broadway and Chambers Street — the sophisticated Anglo-Italianate style of that structure immediately made the architects prominent. The article was written a few years ago, in 2001.  We moved in there 2004, and I can tell you that since then, there’s been no renovation (and the building needs it, I tell ya).  One interesting tidbit: that 7,500-square-foot space on the fourth floor was used to film the movie Michael Clayton.  And it caused us much grief.  Let’s just say that the ceiling is quite thin and flaky.

224 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013

We work on the 3rd floor of this building, which used to be the Odd Fellows Hall.  We just found out about it, and here’s a fascinating read on the history of the building.  A snippet:

The Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization founded to benefit the sick and orphaned, was created in England in 1812 and established in New York in 1844. After three years in a hall on Canal Street, the group began its Grand Lodge, facing Grand, Centre and Baxter Streets, in an emerging district of hotels and elite stores. It retained the architects Trench & Snook, who had just designed the A. T. Stewart store at Broadway and Chambers Street — the sophisticated Anglo-Italianate style of that structure immediately made the architects prominent.

The article was written a few years ago, in 2001.  We moved in there 2004, and I can tell you that since then, there’s been no renovation (and the building needs it, I tell ya).  One interesting tidbit: that 7,500-square-foot space on the fourth floor was used to film the movie Michael Clayton.  And it caused us much grief.  Let’s just say that the ceiling is quite thin and flaky.
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