Film Center Building

Architect: Ely Jacques Kahn
Style: Art Deco
City: Manhattan, NY

The Film Center Building rose in 1928-1929 at 630 Ninth Avenue to house businesses in film, theater, television, and audio production in Hell's Kitchen. Ely Jacques Kahn served as architect of record, working in the Art Deco style. It is a 13-story office building whose lobby is a New York City landmark and which is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

the building

The lobby. The lobby's walls and ceilings are patterned to resemble tapestries, while the stair risers, ventilation grilles, directory signs, and elevator doors were all designed in a coordinated, multicolored scheme.

the style

Kahn's Art Deco treatment favors a plain brown-brick facade above a marble ground story and white-stone second story, saving the style's richest expression for the interior lobby rather than the street front.

the architect

Ely Jacques Kahn served as architect of record for the Film Center Building, working in the Art Deco idiom.

significance

The lobby interior is an individual New York City Landmark, and the building is separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

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330 West 42nd Street 0.2 mi · International Style · 1931
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Paramount Hotel 0.2 mi · 1928
Music Box Theater 0.2 mi · 1921
The Times Square Building 0.2 mi · Gothic Revival · 1913

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