71 Fifth Avenue
71 Fifth Avenue is a sophisticated 1906 design by Charles Volz. Its strong cubistic proportions are heightened by an abstract approach to decoration, with the ornament being reduced to crisp lines of delineation.
Not much is known of Volz, but judging from this building, he had a sure grasp of the potential of the coming modern movement. In addition to 71 Fifth Avenue, his other works in the city include the original Richardsonian Romanesque design for the American Museum of Natural History (undertaken with the firm of Cady, Berg & See, who devised the master plan) and the 42nd Precinct Police Department at George Meade Plaza in the Bronx. The latter building has some notoriety as the film location for Fort Apache, The Bronx, a 1981 film set in the then heavily decayed neighborhood.