Luckey, Platt & Company Department Store
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Luckey, Platt & Company Department Store
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Vacant store building in 2008
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| Location | Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| Coordinates | 41°42′10″N 73°55′33″W / 41.70278°N 73.92583°WCoordinates: 41°42′10″N 73°55′33″W / 41.70278°N 73.92583°W |
| Built | 1923 |
| Architect | Percival Lloyd |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference # | 82001146 |
| Added to NRHP | 1982 |
The Luckey, Platt & Company Department Store building is located at the corner of Main and Academy streets in downtown Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. For most of the 20th century it was a major retail destination not only for the city but the entire Hudson Valley. Its closure in 1981, after years of losing customers to suburban shopping malls, was a serious blow to the city's Main Mall. The structure remained vacant until December 2008, when after several years of renovation it was reopened as a residential development with 143 rental apartments, with additional commercial space on the ground floor, as an anchor and catalyst for further downtown revitalization.
The massive, gray, five-story Classical Revival structure was designed by Percival Lloyd and opened in 1923. There are from 11-17 bays. The roofline features a parapet roof with a molded cornice below featuring small lion's heads. The frieze has other features of the style, such as anthemion brackets, egg-and-dart and dentil moldings. Further down the facade are found pilasters with foliated capitals.
Immediately adjacent on either street are older, more Italianate buildings which housed the store's operations before the construction of the main building. They are included as contributing resources to its 1982 listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
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