The building at <b>280 Broadway</b> at the corner of Chambers Street in the Civic Center district of Manhattan, New York City was built in 1845-46 and was designed by John B. Snook in the Italiante style, the first commercial building in that style in the city.  It was originally the <b>A. T. Stewart Dry Goods Store</b>, the first department in the city, and was located only at the Broadway and Reade Street, and over the years expanded down Broadway and along Chambers Street.   The 1850-51 and 1851-52 additions were designed by Trench &amp; Snook, the one in 1872 by Frederick Schmidt. Clad in Tuckahoe marble – after 1850 supported by cast-iron on the ground floors – one of the first commercial buildings to do do, it became known as <b>"The Marble Palace"</b>.The store moved uptown in 1862 to a new full-block building on Broadway betweeen 9th and 10th Streets, and that building acquired a full-block annex between 8th and 9th Streets in 1902, although by that time A. T. Stewart had died and the company had been sold to John Wanamaker's.<p>After the store moved, the building at 280 Broadway became a warehouse.  In 1884 Edward D. Harris designed an addition in which two floors were added to the original five, and the building was converted into offices; in 1917 it was bought by the <i>New York Sun</i> newspaper, which renamed it the <b>Sun Building</b>.</p><p>In 1966, New York City acquired the building for what was a planned Civic Center redevelopment plan that not came to fruition. The building was rehabilitated from 1995-2002, overseen by Beyer Blinder Belle. The city's Department of Building uses the upper floors, and the first and second floors are used to retail stores. The building is a designated NYC landmark and a Nationmal Historic Landmark. (Sources: <i>Guide to NYC Landmarks</i> (4th ed.), <i>AIA Guide to NYC</i> (5th ed.) and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/about/man_sunbuilding.shtml">NYC DCAS page</a>)</p>
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