Scribner Building
- Architect
- Ernest Flagg
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Scribner Building at 153-157 Fifth Avenue was completed in 1893 as the corporate headquarters of Charles Scribner's Sons, designed by Ernest Flagg in the Beaux-Arts style. Its ground floor housed the firm's bookstore while the upper floors held publishing offices, and the company stayed until 1913, when it moved to a new Flagg-designed building at 597 Fifth Avenue.
the building
Fifth Avenue facade. A base of rusticated limestone blocks anchors the first two stories, above which the facade splits into five limestone bays through the third to fifth floors, capped by a mansard roof at the sixth story. Vertical piers run through the center of the composition.
the style
Flagg designed the building in the Beaux-Arts manner, giving a commercial publishing house the formal limestone dress of a grander Parisian-trained architect's vocabulary.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Ernest Flagg designed both this building and the Scribner firm's later headquarters at 597 Fifth Avenue.
significance
The building is a National Register-listed and individually designated New York City Landmark, designated on September 14, 1976. The Scribner family retained ownership as leased office space until 1951.
nearby
- Flatiron Building
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- Gorham Manufacturing Company Building
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