Metropolitan Life North Building
- Architects
- Harvey Wiley Corbett D. Everett Waid
- Year
- 1950
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Metropolitan Life North Building, now known as Eleven Madison, is a 30-story Art Deco skyscraper at 11-25 Madison Avenue, designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett and D. Everett Waid. Construction started in 1929 on the site of the second Madison Square Presbyterian Church, but the Great Depression derailed the original plan for a 100-story tower, and the building was completed in stages through 1950.
the building
An unfinished ambition. The North Building was meant to be the base of the world's tallest skyscraper. Funding problems following the Depression left it far shorter than planned, built out in three stages instead.
A sky bridge to its neighbor. The building was formerly connected by a sky bridge and tunnel to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower just to its south.
the style
The Art Deco massing remains visible in the tower's base, a remnant of the far larger skyscraper it was originally designed to anchor.
More on Art Decothe architect
Designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett and D. Everett Waid, both established skyscraper architects of the era.
significance
As part of the Metropolitan Life Home Office Complex, the North Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 1996. It now serves as the North American headquarters for UBS Investment Bank.
nearby
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
- New York Life Insurance Company Building
- One Madison
- Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory
- Flatiron Building
- Scribner Building