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400 MADISON BLDG

architect

H. Craig Severance

location

400 Madison Avenue (between E47th and E48th Streets) 

date

1929 

style

Art Deco

construction

22 floors, 84.7m (278 feet) high 

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.

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