Fuller Building

40°45′45″N 73°58′19″W / 40.762556°N 73.971875°W / 40.762556; -73.971875

The Fuller Building was also the original name of the Flatiron Building

The Fuller Building is a tower block in Manhattan on the northeast corner at 41-45 East 57th Street and Madison Avenue.

Construction

The Fuller was built for the Fuller Construction Company in 1929 after they moved from the Flatiron Building. In tune with the times, the architects Walker & Gillette included many art deco features in the interior and exterior decoration of the building. As Christopher Gray wrote in The New York Times, "It was built in 1929 as a jazz-age testament to the emerging commercial chic of 57th Street."^[1] As contractors, Fuller Construction went on to erect the United Nations complex, Lever House and the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington.^[2]

Art galleries

The Fuller Building is known for housing a number of New York's most important galleries including the André Emmerich Gallery (closed), the Robert Miller Gallery (moved), the Charles Egan Gallery (closed), the David McKee Gallery (moved), David Findlay Jr. Gallery, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Andrew Crispo Gallery (closed), and the pioneering Pierre Matisse Gallery (closed), amongst others. Although several galleries have either moved or closed, many newer ones, such as the Jason McCoy Gallery (11th floor), and the Wendt Gallery have taken their place.

References

^ Christopher Gray, "Streetscapes/Fuller Building; Art Deco Delight Seeks to Recapture Its Past Glory," The New York Times, June 11, 1995.
^ Gray, New York Times, ibid.

Sources

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External links

Midtown Book, The Fuller Building

[1] Christopher Gray, "Streetscapes/Fuller Building; Art Deco Delight Seeks to Recapture Its Past Glory," The New York Times, June 11, 1995.

[2] Gray, New York Times, ibid.

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