The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 50, December 9, 2007, Article 15

AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY BUILDING SOLD

An article in the New York Observer reported that "Kent Swig's
Swig Equities has dropped some cash for a coin museum, paying
$23.9 million for the American Numismatic Society's building
at 138 William Street. The society (numismatics are coin
collectors) is planning a move to a leased space nearby-
tentatively next summer-for financial reasons, according
to a spokeswoman."

The ANS published a news release November 28th on the sale
and its relocation to leased space in a newly renovated
building elsewhere in Manhattan.

[Here are excerpts from the press release, followed by a
note on the ANS Library.  -Editor]

The Society will be relocating in the second half of 2008
to a leased 20,000 square foot space on the eleventh floor
of One Hudson Square, a newly renovated 19 story building
in a popular neighborhood near SoHo and Tribeca.

One Hudson Square is situated on the corners of Varick,
Grand and Canal Streets, one of Manhattan's most vibrant
and easily accessible neighborhoods.  Other tenants in
the immediate area include the Jackie Robinson Museum,
The Art Institute of New York, and The Guggenheim Foundation
as well as others from the education, publishing, advertising
and financial sectors.

The new headquarters will house a gallery for exhibitions,
state-of-the-art lecture and conference rooms, and a library
filled with ambient light housing about 10,000 linear feet
of open shelving.

ANS Executive Director Ute Wartenberg adds: "The new Harry
Bass Jr. Library will have the same shelving and seating
capacity on a single floor, with views of the Hudson River.
There will be an elegant, glassed-enclosed Rare Book Room
and a Members' Lounge in addition to the John J. Ford Jr.
Conference and Reading Room.   All current library holdings
will be transferred to the new location.  Over the last few
years, we have been selling some of the extensive holdings
of duplicate auction catalogues and other similar items,
which are currently housed on our second floor.  If any
E-Sylum readers are interested in such materials, please
contact our Museum Administrator Joanne Isaac
(isaac@numismatics.org)."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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