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Images- Midtown 400 MADISON BLDG |
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architect |
H. Craig Severance |
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location |
400 Madison Avenue (between E47th and E48th Streets) |
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date |
1929 |
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style |
Art Deco |
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construction |
22 floors, 84.7m (278 feet) high |
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type |
Office Building |
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notes |
From a narrow plot (less than 45 feet wide), Severance designed his building as a large pediment, a little bit ala Paramount Bldg, minus any dephth behind. The setbacks prove to be well-balanced and in a perfect symmetry. The verticality character is accentuated by protruding piers and recessed spandrels and windows. The final crown is a jumble of balconies, battlements and machicolations, reminiscences of French Medieval under the Valois. |