The Barclay-Vesey Building, also known as the New York Telephone Company Building and the Verizon Building, is a 500ft (152m) tall skyscraper in New York City. The hulking building was designed by world-renowned architect Ralph Thomas Walker to serve as the headquarters for the New York Telephone Company. Completed in 1926, the building was among New York's earliest Art Deco skyscrapers.The tower features numerous setbacks, two-tone masonry, and geometric ornamentation that came to define a generation of American architecture. While it has since been surrounded by taller structures, the Barclay-Vesey Building once stood apart from Lower Manhattan's distinctive skyline, giving it an outsized presence along what was then the Hudson River waterfront.