The 275 Madison Avenue Building is an outstanding Art Deco skyscraper dating from the end of New York’s 1920s and early-1930s skyscraper boom. It is among a handful of buildings completed in New York City by architect Kenneth Franzheim, a prominent designer of theaters, department stores, apartment houses, and office buildings. It has a striking polished-granite base with rich abstract ornament and a compelling black-and-silver color scheme. It features a dramatically massed, slab-form tower. Its Art Deco ornament and streamlined, austerely ornamented tower bridge the exuberant Art Deco style and the spare, sculptural qualities of the International Style.
STATUS Designated Individual Landmark
The Neighborhood
Murray Hill
The land that was Robert Murray’s 18th-century country estate became one of the city’s premier residential districts. Primarily constructed between 1853 and the 1920s, the neighborhood’s buildings consist of row houses built in the Italianate and Second Empire styles as well as three apartment buildings,...
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