Pershing Square Building

Coordinates: 40°45′06″N 73°58′39″W / 40.75167°N 73.97750°W / 40.75167; -73.97750

The Pershing Square Building in 1936, looking eastward from 41st Street

The Pershing Square Building is a 24-story office tower built in 1923, located on Park Avenue between East 41st and 42nd Streets in Manhattan, New York City. The building's address is listed as both 100 East 42nd Street and 125 Park Avenue, and it occupies a position directly across the street from Grand Central Terminal near Pershing Square.

The building was designed in the Romanesque Revival style by the firms of Sloan & Robertson and York and Sawyer;[1] Henry Mandel was the developer. It was erected on the site of the former Grand Union Hotel,[2] and takes its name from the open plaza planned in 1919 to honor World War I general John J. Pershing.[3]

The structure rises from a square 7-story base with 3-story high decorative arches and continues in a u-shaped configuration to the top floor. The building is clad in beige brick and noted for the elaborate decoration designed by Sloan and produced by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company. One of the figures at the fifth-floor level represents a Roman caduceator, or peace commissioner. He holds a caduceus in one hand as an emblem of office and, in the other, a cornucopia to suggest the benefits of a prospective peace.[4]

The current owner, SL Green, purchased the building in 2010 from the Shorenstein Company.[5]

Tenants

Notable current occupants as of 2012 included:

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Pershing Square Building" on Emporis
  2. ↑ "Pershing Square Building Financed; S.W. Straus & Co. Underwrite $6,000,000 Mortgage Covering Building and Old Grand Union Hotel Site. Twenty-four stories high; Mortgage Also Includes a First Lien on Income of Property, Estimated at $816,000 a Year". New York Times (April 25, 1922)
  3. ↑ "Pershing Square Viaduct Designation Report", New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (September 23, 1980)
  4. ↑ Gray, Christopher "Meet Me Beneath the War Angels". New York Times (March 31, 2010)
  5. ↑ Agovino, Theresa. "SL Green snaps up 125 Park Avenue", Crain's New York Business (May 6, 2010)
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