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The Downtown Athletic Club was the original name of a 35-story skyscraper located at 19 West Street in Lower Manhattan. The building, now The Downtown Club and renovated to include 45 stories, is significant as an example of Art Deco design; as the original home of the Heisman Trophy; as a designated New York City Landmark; as an exemplar of adaptive reuse; and as an influence on the architectural profession at schools of architecture in the U.S. and other countries.

History
The Downtown Athletic Club was first a club and later a building as well. Founded in 1926 by a group of businessmen in Lower Manhattan, the club first installed itself in the Singer Building, on Broadway at Liberty Street, three blocks north of Wall Street. According to Christopher Gray, the buildings and landmarks columnist for The New York Times, “From later reports it is clear that these men, headed by Schuyler Van Vechten Hoffman, a financier, had an entirely separate building in mind from the start.”