Mr. Horgan and Mr. Slattery first appeared in city directories around 1890, when they listed themselves as builders. Soon they referred to themselves as architects, but they had only relatively humble commissions. These included the 1895 row of houses at 329 to 343 West 71st Street, a lively if untutored riff on the tan brick and terra-cotta facade of Stanford White’s 1891 Century Association building at 7 West 43rd Street.
The Hall of Records was the biggest and most famous by Arthur J. Horgan and Vincent J. Slattery, architects with Tammany Hall connections whose appointment outraged political reformers.
