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Images- Midtown Postum (Cereal) Building |
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architect |
Cross & Cross |
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location |
250 Park Avenue (between East 47th and East 46th Streets) |
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date |
1925 |
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style |
Neoclassical |
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type |
Office Building |
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notes |
One of the only remaining old office buildings on Park Avenue is the former Postum [Cereal] Building at 250 Park Avenue. Designed by Cross & Cross in 1925, the building carried on the "Terminal City" designs of Warren & Wetmore so nobly enunciated at the Helmsley Building (the former New York Central Building) straddling the avenue which actually was completed a few years later. While well-proportioned, 250 Park Avenue lacks great detail and is a little lackluster, but then that is acceptable when it is reinforcing the overall ambiance. A large curved brass pipe ornamental element over the first setback on the avenue is an incongruous later addition. (if you ask me, I think this building looks vaguely Stalinist!) |