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Mutual Reserve Building
The eastern facade of the Mutual Reserve Building, seen from Duane Street during the winter. There are trees in the foreground.
The eastern facade, seen from Duane Street in 2012
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General information
TypeCommercial
Location305 Broadway at NW corner of Duane Street, Manhattan, New York
Coordinates40°42′56″N 74°00′20″W / 40.71556°N 74.00556°W / 40.71556; -74.00556
Construction started1892
Completed1894
Height
Roof184 ft (56 m)
Technical details
Floor count13
Design and construction
Architect(s)William H. Hume
Structural engineerFrederick H. Kindl
Main contractorRichard Deeves & Son
References
New York City Landmark
DesignatedDecember 20, 2011[1]
Reference no.2431

The Mutual Reserve Building, also known as the Langdon Building and 305 Broadway, is an office building at Broadway and Duane Street in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The 13-story building, constructed between 1892 and 1894, was designed by William H. Hume and built by Richard Deeves, with Frederick H. Kindl as chief structural engineer. It is just east of the Civic Center of Manhattan, and carries the addresses 305–309 Broadway and 91–99 Duane Street.

The Mutual Reserve Building was designed in a variant of the Romanesque Revival style inspired by the work of Henry Hobson Richardson. The building's articulation consists of three horizontal sections similar to the components of a column, namely a base, shaft, and capital. The facade is clad with granite and limestone, and includes arcades on its lower and upper stories, piers made of rusticated stone blocks, and decorative foliate motifs. The structure was one of the first in New York City to use a cage-like steel frame structure, an early version of the skyscraper.

The Mutual Reserve Building was originally named for its main tenant, the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, and owned by the family of shipping magnate William Fletcher Weld. After the Mutual Reserve Association went bankrupt in 1909, 305 Broadway was renamed the Langdon Building, after the son of the owner. The Weld family sold the building in 1920, and through the rest of the century, the building's main tenants were in the publishing and paper industries, and it also served as the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's first long-term headquarters from 1967 to 1980. The Mutual Reserve Building is one of several extant life-insurance buildings on the southernmost section of Broadway, and was designated a New York City landmark in 2011.

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