4 Park Avenue
- Architect
- Warren and Wetmore
- Year
- 1912
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Manhattan, NY
4 Park Avenue, formerly the Vanderbilt Hotel, is a 22-story building on Park Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets in Murray Hill. Designed by Warren and Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal, it was built for Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and opened as a hotel in 1912. A 1965-67 renovation by Schuman, Lichtenstein & Claman converted the top 18 floors to residential apartments while keeping the lower floors commercial.
the building
Original facade above, new base below. The building's original facade of gray brick and white architectural terracotta survives above the fourth floor, complete with two light courts facing Park Avenue, while the lowest four stories were rebuilt in glass and steel during the 1960s renovation.
The Adam-style lobby. The hotel's lobby was designed in the Adam style and is partially preserved today as the lobby of the residential building.
the style
4 Park Avenue was built in 1912 in the Neoclassical style by Warren and Wetmore, the same firm responsible for Grand Central Terminal.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Warren and Wetmore designed 4 Park Avenue as the Vanderbilt Hotel; the firm is best known for Grand Central Terminal.
nearby
- 33rd Street
- Madison Belmont Building
- Thomas and Fanny Clarke House
- Pierpont Morgan Library and Annex
- Colony Club
- Joseph Raphael De Lamar House