1016 Fifth Avenue
An elegant brick-clad building, 1016 Fifth Avenue was completed in 1926 to designs by John B. Peterkin, whose best-known work in New York, the Art Deco Terminal Building formerly at 42nd Street and Park Avenue, was demolished in 1983 for the Phillip Morris Building. A less dramatic structure, 1016 Fifth Avenue is still among the… Continue reading
1014 Fifth Avenue
The former home of the Goethe Institute (now relocated to Irving Place), 1014 Fifth Avenue was once part of a pair of speculative houses designed by Welch, Smith & Provot. In contrast to their design for the Duke-Semans Mansion, the firm produced a reserved façade for 1014 Fifth Avenue…which more recent arrivals have left looking… Continue reading
1010 Fifth Avenue
1010 Fifth Avenue was designed and developed by Fred F. French, whose spectacular eponymous Art Deco tower stands at 551 Fifth Avenue. French’s other residential projects include the famed Tudor City flanking East 42nd Street and overlooking the United Nations; 1010 Fifth Avenue is less fantastical than either project but is a handsome presence nonetheless…. Continue reading
1009 Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue’s most aggressive surviving mansion, 1009 Fifth Avenue was built as one of a quartet of similar homes (the two others that also fronted Fifth were removed for the construction of 1001 Fifth Avenue). A frankly speculative project, the heaping of details by architects Welch, Smith & Provot strain against the boundaries of good… Continue reading
1001 Fifth Avenue
A postmodern design by Johnson & Burgee, 1001 Fifth Avenue was widely criticized when completed in 1979 for its “billboard” façade and “sliced-off Tootsie Roll” fenestration (the latter crack coming from The New York Times’ architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable). As a forerunner of the later and more celebrated AT&T Building by the same firm,… Continue reading