Manhattan Modern
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This map includes over 150 postwar buildings, landscapes, and infrastructures built in Manhattan between 1930 and 1980. Some of them are already designated as New York City Landmarks. Manhattan The majority, recognized by local and national preservation organiza- tions as significant, have not been yet been singled out for protection in a formal designation process. Modern Twelve buildings, marked by letters A through L and not yet landmarked, deserve special attention for their aesthetic or historical interest as exemplars of twentieth-century design. Map The sites on the map are numbered and indexed from north to south, and within that system, from west to east. A Port Authority Uptown Bus Terminal B The Church of the Resurrection C Rockefeller University D Manhattan House E Beekman Theater F Lincoln Center G 2 Columbus Circle H Park Avenue from 49th to 55th Street I Rockefeller Center Expansion J Metropolitan Hotel K Kips Bay Plaza L Chase Manhattan Bank Index Institutional Residential Commercial Landmarked buildings are bold. Name Address Architects Function Date A George Washington Bridge Bus Station 4211 Broadway Pier Luigi Nervi transportation building 1963 2 Church of the Crucifixion 459 West 149th Street Costas Machlouzarides religious building 1967 3 Riverbend Houses East 138th and 142nd streets, between Fifth Avenue Davis, Brody & Associates housing complex 1967 and Harlem River Drive 4 Public School 92, The Mary McCleod Bethune School 222 West 134th Street Percival Goodman school 1965 5 Lenox Terrace West 132nd to 135th Street, between Lenox and Fifth Avenue S. J. Kessler & Sons housing complex 1957 6 Sherman Fairchild Life Sciences Building, Columbia University 1212 Amsterdam Avenue Mitchell Giurgola Associates university building 1977 7 Columbia University Law School 435 West 116th Street Harrison & Abramovitz university building 1961 B Church of the Resurrection 325 East 101st Street Victor Lundy religious building 1965 9 Harlem River Park Towers 10, 20, 30 & 40 Richmond Plaza Davis, Brody & Associates housing complex 1975 10 Ruppert Towers, Yorkville Towers, and Knickerbocker Plaza East 90th to East 92nd Street, between Second and Third Avenue Davis, Brody & Associates housing complex 1975 11 Asphalt Green Sports and Arts Center York Avenue to FDR Drive, between East 90th and 91st streets Kahn & Jacobs recreation center 1944 (Municipal Asphalt Plant) 12 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue Frank Lloyd Wright museum 1959 13 Phelps-Stokes Fund (Joseph Buttinger House) 10 East 87th Street Felix Augenfeld & Jan Hird Pokorny townhouse 1958 14 Church of St. Matthew and St. Timothy 26 West 84th Street Victor Christ-Janer religious building 1970 15 Hanae Mori (Richard Feigen Gallery) [Now demolished] 27 East 79th Street Hans Hollein with Peter Blake, Julian Neski, and Dorothy Alexander art gallery / showroom 1970 16 Temple Israel 112 East 75th Street Schuman & Lichtenstein religious building 1966 17 Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Avenue Marcel Breuer & Associates museum 1966 18 Public School 199 270 West 70th Street Edward Durell Stone school 1963 19 The Asia Society 725 Park Avenue Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates museum 1980 20 124 East 70th Street (Edward A. Norman House) 124 East 70th Street William Lescaze townhouse 1941 21 The Premier 333 East 69th Street Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass (William J. Conklin, associate partner in charge of design) apartment building 1963 22 Gladys and Roland Harriman Building, American Red Cross 150 Amsterdam Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1963 C Rockefeller University Expansion Buildings 1230 York Avenue, between East 64th and 68th streets Harrison & Abramovitz with Dan Kiley, landscape design university campus 1958 Caspary Hall & Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Hall Caspary Auditorium President’s House Graduate Student Residences Detlev W. Bronck Laboratory D Manhattan House 200 East 66th Street Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Mayer & Whittlesey apartment building 1950 E Beekman Theater and commercial block 1242-1258 Second Avenue Fellheimer & Wagner with John McNamara and J.M. Berlinger, associate architects theater 1952 26 Russell Sage Foundation (Asia House) 112 East 64th Street Philip Johnson & Associates office building 1959 27 130 East 64th Street (Edward Durell Stone House Addition) 130 East 64th Street Edward Durell Stone & Associates townhouse 1958 F Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts West 62nd to 66th Streets, between Harrison & Abramovitz, site plan performing arts complex New York State Theater Columbus and Amsterdam avenues Philip Johnson 1964 Metropolitan Opera Wallace K. Harrison 1966 Avery Fisher Hall (Philharmonic Hall) Max Abramovitz 1962 Vivian Beaumont Theater Eero Saarinen 1965 Lincoln Center Library and Museum Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 1965 Juilliard School Pietro Belluschi with Eduardo Catalano and Westermann & Miller 1969 Alice Tully Hall Pietro Belluschi with Eduardo Catalano and Westermann & Miller 1969 29 Alexander Hirsch Townhouse 101 East 63rd Street Paul Rudolph townhouse 1970 30 American Bible Society Building 1865 Broadway Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1966 31 Fifth Avenue Synagogue 5 East 62nd Street Percival Goodman religious building 1956 32 1114-1116 First Avenue 1114-1116 First Avenue Horace Ginsbern & Associates office complex 1947 33 Roosevelt Island Tram Station 60th Street and 2nd Avenue Prentice & Chan Olhausen with Lev Zetlin Associates transportation building 1976 34 Roosevelt Island Philip Johnson & Associates, master plan 1975 Dan Kiley & Partners and Zion & Breen, landscape plan 1975 Rivercross and Island House 505, 513 & 541 Main Street Johansen & Bhavnani apartment complex 1975 Eastwood Apartments 510-580 Main Street Sert, Jackson & Associates apartment complex 1976 35 505 Park Avenue 505 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1949 36 Cinema I and Cinema II 1001 Third Avenue Abraham W. Geller and Ben Schlanger theater 1962 G 2 Columbus Circle (Gallery of Modern Art) 2 Columbus Circle Edward Durell Stone museum 1965 38 240 Central Park South 240 Central Park South Mayer & Whittlesey apartment building 1941 39 General Motors Building 767 Fifth Avenue Edward Durell Stone; Emery Roth & Sons, associate architects office building 1968 40 ABN-Amro Bank Building (Pepsi-Cola Building) 500 Park Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Gordon Bunshaft and Natalie de Blois, designers) office building 1960 41 460 Park Avenue (Davies Building) 460 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons apartment building 1955 42 Solow Building (9 West 57th Street) 9 West 57th Street Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 197 43 Universal Pictures Building 445 Park Avenue Kahn & Jacobs office building 1947 44 575 Madison Avenue 575 Madison Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1950 45 Mercedes-Benz Showroom (Jaguar Showroom) 430 Park Avenue Frank Lloyd Wright showroom 1955 46 Corning Glass Building 717 Fifth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Abbe office building 1959 H Park Avenue Bankers Trust Building 280 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons with Henry Dreyfuss, interior designer office building 1963; 1971 300 Park Avenue (Colgate-Palmolive Building) 300 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1956 340-350 Park Avenue 340-350 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office complex 1962 400 Park Avenue 400 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1958 410 Park Avenue 410 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1959 430 Park Avenue 430 Park Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1954 48 Rockefeller Apartments 17 West 54th Street Harrison & Fouilhoux apartment building 1936 49 Sheraton New York (Americana Hotel) 811 Seventh Avenue Morris Lapidus & Associates and Kornblath, Harle & Liebman hotel 1962 50 Donnell Library Center 20 West 53rd Street Edgar I. Williams with Aymar Embury II library 1955 (Donnell Free Circulating Library and Reading Room) 51 Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone; Philip Johnson & Associates museum 1939; 1951; 1964 52 Paley Park (Samuel Paley Plaza) 3-5 East 53rd Street Zion & Breen with Albert Preston Moore, consulting architect park 1967 53 Lever House 390 Park Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (Gordon Bunshaft, designer) office building 1952 54 CBS Building 51 West 52nd Street Eero Saarinen & Associates office building 1965 55 666 Fifth Avenue 666 Fifth Avenue Carson & Lundin office building 1957 56 Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Philip Johnson; Kahn & Jacobs, associate architects office building 1958 57 The Four Seasons 99 East 52nd Street Philip Johnson & Associates restaurant 1958 58 Citicorp Center 601 Lexington Avenue Hugh Stubbins & Associates office building 1978 59 Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III Guest House 242 East 52nd Street Philip Johnson & Associates townhouse 1950 (Museum of Modern Art Guest House) 60 Look Building 488 Madison Avenue Emery Roth & Sons office building 1950 61 Greenacre Park 217-221 East 51st Street Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates park 1971 I Rockefeller Center Expansion Time & Life Building 1271 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1959 Equitable Building 1285 Sixth Avenue Skidmore, Owings & Merrill office building 1961 Exxon Building 1251 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1971 McGraw-Hill Building 1221 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1972 Celanese Building 1211 Sixth Avenue Harrison, Abramovitz & Harris office building 1973 J Metropolitan Hotel (Summit Hotel) 569 Lexington Avenue Morris Lapidus hotel 1961 64 High