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Images-Upper East Side THE RITZ TOWER |
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architect |
Emery Roth and Carrère & Hastings |
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location |
109 E 57th St./455 Park Ave. |
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date |
1925 |
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Art Deco Sixteenth Century Italian Renaissance |
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construction |
buff-brick, limestone base. 40 floors,
166.4m (546 feet) high The base is of rusticated white limestone with Renaissance themes, whereas the tower has a warm-toned brick facing and somewhat more composed decor. The terraces on the setbacks were a novelty at the time and a later-day example can be seen in the next-door Galleria tower. The top of the building at 166,5 m is set back with ordinary copper roofs and topped with a series of obelisks. |
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