Type Office and retail Completed 1989 Floor count 28 Floors 28 Opened 1988 Architectural style Postmodern Architecture | Location New York, NY Roof 376 ft (115 m) Floor area 200,000 square feet Construction started 1988 Owner SL Green Realty | |
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Architecture firm Skid, Owings & Merrill Similar 1095 Avenue of the Ameri, 500 Fifth Avenue, 919 3rd Avenue, 810 Seventh Avenue, Saddle River County P | ||
461 fifth avenue new york ny
461 Fifth Avenue at 40th street is a 28-story skyscraper located in the Grand Central Terminal area of the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. The building was constructed in 1988 by the Mitsui Fudosan development group and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
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- 461 fifth avenue new york ny
- Map of 461 Fifth Avenue 461 5th Ave New York NY 10017 USA
- History
- Architecture
- References
Map of 461 Fifth Avenue, 461 5th Ave, New York, NY 10017, USA
History
In the late nineteenth century, 461 Fifth Avenue was the residence of the Misses Furniss, who were known for hosting musicals and other social functions. They had acquired the address from a J. M. Bixby sometime after 1873.
Sometime between 1911 and 1915, the private house was replaced with an eleven-story office building, which in 1945 was renovated to become a Lane Bryant store. By 1988 the Lane Bryant building was demolished.
The current structure was built in 1988 by a Japanese-lead development group using a design by Raul de Armas of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Within a year of completion, the building had a 90% occupancy rate and had spurred a building boom in the Fifth Avenue area. By 1992 it was fully leased. The first floor shopping level was occupied by a Pier 1 Imports until 2007, when it was leased to BCBGMAXAZRIA.
The building was sold to its current owner, SL Green Realty, in 2003 for $62.3 million.
Architecture
The 461 Fifth Avenue building is noted for its use of modern materials, creating a stone-finish look, as well as its base-setback that is the same height as older buildings in the neighborhood. The building is also noted architecturally for its combination of a 10-story 19th-century base, which mirrors nearby older buildings, and an 18-story post-modern tower.
The exterior uses a pre-cast concrete finish to mimic the appearance of limestone and has a copper mansard roof similar to other buildings in the area.