The Barclay–Vesey Building in Manhattan was designed by Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker for the New York Telephone Company. Construction ran from 1923 to 1927, and the city declared it complete in April 1927. The style is Art Deco, though contemporary publications called it Modernistic. The main text gives 498 feet (152 m), and footnotes cite 486 and 484 feet.
The steel frame is enclosed in face brick and terracotta in green, gold and buff hues, on a granite base. Setbacks, vertical piers and a pyramidal roof shape the tower. An arcade along Vesey Street has 12 Guastavino-tiled arches, and the lobby has marble walls, bronze medallions and twelve ceiling murals.
Damage from September 11, 2001 took three years and 1.4 billion dollars to restore. It became a landmark in 1991. Verizon sold the top floors in 2013, and they became the 100 Barclay condominiums, finished in 2016. The article gives no public hours.
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