275 Madison Avenue Building
- Year
- 1931
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
275 Madison Avenue is a 43-story office building near Grand Central Terminal, built from 1930 to 1931 and designed by Kenneth Franzheim in a mixture of Art Deco and International styles. It was developed by Houston Properties, a firm headed by the Texas entrepreneur Jesse H. Jones, and has also been known as the Johns-Manville Building and the American Home Products Building.
the building
Setbacks and a shaft. The three-story granite base carries vertical white-brick pilasters and dark spandrels above, and the tower steps back through several setbacks on the 4th through 23rd floors to meet the 1916 Zoning Resolution before tapering to a rectangular shaft from the 24th to 43rd floors.
the style
Franzheim combined Art Deco's vertical pilasters and dark spandrel emphasis with the International Style's simplified massing, a hybrid common to New York towers of the early 1930s working within setback zoning rules.
More on Art Decothe architect
Kenneth Franzheim designed 275 Madison Avenue, completed in 1931.
significance
Designated a New York City Landmark on January 13, 2009.
nearby
- Joseph Raphael De Lamar House
- Pershing Square Building
- Knox Building
- B. Altman and Company Building
- Pierpont Morgan Library and Annex
- Grand Central Terminal