The Beekman Hotel & Residences, Hotel and residential complex in the Financial District, New York City, United States
The Beekman Hotel & Residences at 5 Beekman Street joins the ten-story Temple Court Building of 1881–1883, its 1889–1890 limestone annex, and the 51-story Beekman Residences tower completed in 2016. The red-brick and terracotta original, by Benjamin Silliman Jr. and James M. Farnsworth, has a two-story granite base and two pyramidal corner towers; inside, a nine-story atrium rises to a skylight.
The Temple Court Building was erected from 1881 to 1883 as offices for lawyers, commissioned by Eugene Kelly; Farnsworth added the limestone annex in 1889–90. The Shulsky family bought it in 1945, and it stood abandoned from 2001, used for film shoots, until a 2014–2016 renovation added the Beekman Residences tower and reopened it as a hotel.
The site was part of New York's first theater district; a theater built here in 1761 hosted the first U.S. presentation of Hamlet. Later it held Clinton Hall, home of the Mercantile Library and the National Academy of Design. The 1880s building was named after London's Temple Court of the Inns of Court, and its nine-story atrium now serves as the hotel lobby.
The hotel entrance is at 123 Nassau Street, and the Temple Court Building is bounded by Nassau Street, Beekman Street and Theatre Alley, just east of City Hall Park. Inside, look for the nine-story atrium; the Temple Court Building and its atrium were designated New York City landmarks on 10 February 1998.
The site was part of New York's first theater district: a theater built here in 1761 hosted the first presentation of Hamlet in the United States. Later, Clinton Hall housed the New York Mercantile Library from 1830 to 1854 and also the National Academy of Design.
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