{"id":117943,"date":"2018-04-09T13:25:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/andrew-franz-modernizes-nyc-beaux-arts-marvel-into-financial-office\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T17:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T22:02:18","slug":"andrew-franz-modernizes-nyc-beaux-arts-marvel-into-financial-office","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/andrew-franz-modernizes-nyc-beaux-arts-marvel-into-financial-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Franz Modernizes NYC Beaux-Arts Marvel Into Financial Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the Hill Publishing Building, a 12-story terra-cotta tower, was built in 1916 for the New York company, before becoming the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company<\/a>, it was a marvel of engineering and artistry. Designed by Goldwin Starrett & Van Vleck, the architects of the American Stock Exchange, the structure was robust, its ceilings exceptionally high, and the windows large and abundant. Lower floors were devoted to the noisy business of putting out a variety of journals: Printing presses rumbled among the newsrooms and bindery. But all was calm and refined in the executive suite occupying the building’s topmost level, where plaster rosettes decorated a vaulted ceiling and a wrought-iron railing graced the mezzanine wrapping two sides of the floor.<\/p>\n

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A century later, Andrew Franz<\/a>, who was advising a financial-services company on a relocation, toured the old executive suite, which, by then, had been sadly compromised. The mezzanine had been extended to create more usable floor space—a hulking insertion that blocked views and cast everything under it in darkness. The few remaining plaster details were crumbling. Paint encrusted the beaux arts railing.<\/p>\n

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