Short-Lived And Gaudy

In 1894, the New York Herald moved from its long-standing home at Broadway and Park Row to the intersection of Broadway and Sixth Avenue, soon to be renamed Herald Square. The new building was a Venetian-style palazzo designed by Stanford White and looking really badly out of place with two avenues of traffic and the elevated train running by. Here’s a nice view of it:

The north half of the building was demolished in 1921; the south half was converted to retail use and demolished in 1940. But the most remarkable thing to me is how, despite a fairly staid architectural style, the building was absolutely covered with ornament:

That’s…a lot.