Historical Buildings in Financial District

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[{"address":"Coenties Slip","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":40.70335716366084,"longitude":-74.01034334999999},"media":[{"metadata":{"width":1000,"height":788},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.1.jpg?alt=media&token=e176ba1d-3b3a-4bac-aaf1-af152ddde4c1"},{"type":"text","content":"\"The slip was named for Conraet Ten Eyck and his wife, Antje, a moneyed Dutch couple who lived in the area in the 1600s. (“Coenties,” most historians agree, is a contraction of Conraet and Antje.)\"\n\n\"As commerce dried up and the shipping industry moved elsewhere, the saltwater-kissed warehouses fell into disrepair and abandonment. Yet in the 1950s and ’60s, as Abstract Expressionism gave way to Minimalism, a small group of artists moved in.\""},{"metadata":{"width":1000,"height":1026},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.2.jpg?alt=media&token=15523983-1216-4cde-aeaa-e80c55947d0b"},{"type":"text","content":"\"The artists sought cheap housing, space, light, and, for many of them, an escape from the uptown art scene and the so-called 10th-Street style that was overtaking Greenwich Village. What they found were big, abandoned buildings strewn with rope, masts, planks, ships’ wheels, and sailcloth—the relics of a vanished industry.\""},{"type":"link","content":"https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-little-known-manhattan-neighborhood-where-agnes-martin-and-robert-indiana-made-art"}]},{"address":"26 Broadway","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":40.70537571366179,"longitude":-74.01325084999999},"media":[{"metadata":{"width":705,"height":900},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.3.jpg?alt=media&token=92e116ea-f97c-400c-8e86-972fa9c93798"},{"type":"text","content":"\"26 Broadway, also known as the Standard Oil Building or Socony–Vacuum Building, is an office building adjacent to Bowling Green in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The 31-story, 520-foot-tall (160 m) structure was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, in conjunction with Shreve, Lamb & Blake. It was built as the headquarters of Standard Oil, once one of the largest oil companies in the United States.\""},{"metadata":{"width":550,"height":310},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.4.jpg?alt=media&token=983bcba9-c48e-49ad-ab26-f6000d92331d"},{"type":"text","content":"\"The original structure was built in 1884–1885 for Standard Oil on the former site of U.S. treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton's house. The Standard Oil Building was expanded in 1895 and again after World War I, when Walter C. Teagle bought four neighboring buildings to create a continuous lot. The building was greatly expanded to its current size in a multi-phase construction project that took place between 1921 and 1928.\""},{"type":"link","content":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_Broadway"}]},{"address":"The Woolworth Building","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":40.71232801366517,"longitude":-74.0081222},"media":[{"metadata":{"width":490,"height":760},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.5.jpg?alt=media&token=9b63f4ec-2d1d-45be-89c3-afc8711bfa5a"},{"type":"text","content":"\"The Woolworth Building is an early American skyscraper designed by architect Cass Gilbert located at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, with a height of 792 feet (241 m). More than a century after its construction, it remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States.\""},{"metadata":{"width":1000,"height":667},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.6.jpg?alt=media&token=1d921dbc-b038-4447-85fb-4a14d3129243"},{"type":"text","content":"\"F. W. Woolworth, the founder of a brand of popular five-and-ten-cent stores, conceived the skyscraper as a headquarters for his company. Woolworth planned the skyscraper jointly with the Irving National Exchange Bank, which also agreed to use the structure as its headquarters. The Woolworth Building had originally been planned as a 12- to 16-story commercial building but underwent several revisions during its planning process. Its final height was not decided upon until January 1911. Construction started in 1910 and was completed two years later. The building officially opened on April 24, 1913.\""},{"type":"link","content":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworth_Building"}]}]