Helmsley Building
- Architect
- Warren and Wetmore
- Year
- 1929
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Helmsley Building is a 35-story skyscraper at 230 Park Avenue, just north of Grand Central Terminal, built between 1927 and 1929 as the New York Central Building and designed by Warren & Wetmore in the Beaux-Arts style. It has been called the last major project built as part of the Terminal City complex around Grand Central.
the building
Straddling Park Avenue. Vehicular traffic passes directly through the building's base, entering and exiting the Park Avenue Viaduct through two portals, with passageways alongside connecting 45th and 46th Streets to Grand Central Terminal.
The lobby and crown. Between the vehicular portals sits a lobby finished in bronze and marble; above, the building is topped by a pyramid roof with an ornate cupola over a four-story base of limestone and Texas pink granite.
the style
Warren & Wetmore's Beaux-Arts design gives the tower a monumental base and an ornamented pyramidal crown, fitting its role as the architectural capstone of Terminal City.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
The firm Warren & Wetmore, also responsible for Grand Central Terminal itself, designed the Helmsley Building as the New York Central Building.
significance
The Helmsley Building is a designated New York City Landmark.
nearby
- Graybar Building
- Grand Central Terminal
- 400 Madison Avenue Building
- Chrysler Building
- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
- Pershing Square Building