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The Frederick Fillmore French Building

architects: H. Douglas Ives, the French Company, 1927

ornamental design program: John Sloan, Sloan & Robertson

architectural style: Astylar, Art Deco, Babylonian-Mesopotamian revival, skyscraper

Grand Central Business District, Manhattan
551 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

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"From the beginnings of architecture down through the Roman, Romanesque and Gothic periods the use for which buildings were intended was expressed by symbols, and so in the French Building we have endeavored in the panels of the top of the tower to express not only the purpose for which the building is to be used, commerce, but the character and activities of our own organization, the Fred F. French Companies. The central motif of the large panels on the north and south sides is a rising sun, progress, flanked on either side by two winged griffins, integrity and watchfulness. At either end are two beehives with golden bees, the symbols of thrift and industry. The panels on the east and west sides contain heads of Mercury, the messenger, spreading the message of the French plan."
- architects H. Douglas Ives describes the building:

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"inspired by the Ishtar Gate, the [entrance] decorative program was a most literal evocation of Manhattan as the New Babylon, of the skyscraper as Nebuchadnezzar's hanging garden in the desert."
-New York 1930 Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars, Stern, Gilmartin & Mellins

Taken in: United States / New York / Diamond District (show map)

Taken on: April 24, 2014

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