The terra cotta facade of 90 West Street is a cool off-white, but I was in the right spot to catch its west facade about an hour before sunset. I was in Battery Park City, which means I would have been in the middle of the Hudson River in 1907 when the building was completed. A few other views, starting with a Joseph Pennell sketch from 1908 that makes it into a castle:
A 1912 Detroit Publishing view of West Street that captures it towering over the adjacent docks and industrial buildings:
And finally, one of Cass Gilbert’s original drawings for the north facade:
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