At 64 White Street, the cast-iron facade does more than signal age — it frames a careful dialogue between 19th-century construction and contemporary architectural thinking. Completed in 1869 as the Grosvenor Building, the structure was reworked in 2018 by Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY Architecture, who approached the project as an exercise in adaptive reuse rather than reinvention, allowing the original fabric to set the terms.

The intervention centres on a 35ft atrium that draws daylight through the depth of the plan, transforming what was once a dense commercial interior into a sequence of connected volumes. A custom rigging beam spans the void, engineered to support large-scale artworks, while a floating marble staircase threads upward, its veining cut to align continuously from tread to tread. Across the 8,554sqft footprint, original cast-iron columns and whitewashed brick are left visible, offset by stone, steel and discreetly integrated modern systems.

The layout unfolds over three levels: a double-height exhibition hall at street level; offices and viewing rooms above; and archive, conference and catering spaces below. Positioned between Broadway and Church Street, the building sits within the Tribeca East Historic District, surrounded by galleries and industrial-era streetscapes. It’s listed for $12 million with Esteban Gomez at Compass.

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