1261 Madison Avenue Apartments
- Architect
- Buchman & Fox
- Year
- 1901
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
1261 Madison Avenue is a seven-story Beaux-Arts apartment building at the corner of Madison Avenue and 90th Street, designed by Buchman & Fox for developer Gilbert Brown and built between 1900 and 1901. It was among the first luxury apartment buildings to rise in the Carnegie Hill area before World War I.
the building
Freestanding footprint. Alleyways to the north and east leave the building entirely freestanding, with a 62-foot frontage on 90th Street and 100 feet along Madison Avenue.
Rusticated base. The first and second stories are faced in rusticated limestone, with the outermost bays on Madison Avenue projecting beyond the rest of the facade.
the style
Buchman & Fox's Beaux-Arts design gave the building its formal limestone base and ornamental massing, in keeping with the luxury apartment houses rising nearby in the early 1900s.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Buchman & Fox was the New York architecture firm responsible for the design.
significance
Designated a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-00865) on 7/23/1974 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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