Tiffany & Company Building
The Tiffany & Company Building, also known as the Old Tiffany Building, is an eight-story commercial structure located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 37th Street in New York City. Constructed in 1905 as the flagship store for the Tiffany & Co. jewelry company, it was home to Tiffany & Co until 1940. The building was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by Stanford White of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. Built of Tuckahoe marble—also used by the firm for the Washington Square Arch—the building originally housed an elegant showroom, workshops, and secure storage spaces for the company’s jewelry and decorative arts. Its refined arched and columned façade incorporates large copper-clad Kalamein windows along both street elevations of the prominent corner site. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and made a National Historic Landmark in 1978.
As part of the development of restoration plans for the building, EverGreene was contracted to conduct a series of investigations into the condition of the windows along the 37th Street façade. The objectives of the study were twofold: to identify the original window finishes, where feasible, and to determine appropriate methods for restoring the window surfaces to match those finishes. The scope of work included:
- Historical material research, including materials and types used
- A condition assessment of the windows
- Implementation of cleaning, patination, and coating tests
- On-site mock-ups of multiple restoration approaches
- Development of treatment recommendations
The findings and recommended treatments were compiled into a comprehensive report, which was submitted to the client and later incorporated into the building-wide restoration program.
