Bar Building

The penthouse floors are enclosed with a crenellated parapet which originally housed the short lived "City Club" as well as the structure's water-tank.It is a steel-frame building clad in face brick and cement with Neo-Gothic and Art Deco terra cotta ornamentation.When completed, The Bar Building was the tallest structure between New York City and Albany, NY.Since 1990, the building's penthouse has been the location of J.J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc., an animation and design studio.When the building was threatened with demolition through eminent domain in the early 2000s, Sedelmaier himself was instrumental in working with the White Plains Historical Society and NY State in insuring the preservation and listing of the structure on the National Register of Historic Places.
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