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The Tiffany and Company Building was designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead & White for luxury retail store Tiffany & Co. [5] [13] It is the company's fifth flagship store in New York City. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The facade is an adaptation of the Palazzo Grimani di San Luca in Venice .
The Tiffany & Co. flagship store (also known as The Landmark) is a ten-story retail building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, within the luxury shopping district on Fifth Avenue between 49th and 60th Streets. The building, at 727 Fifth Avenue, has served as Tiffany & Co.'s sixth flagship store since its completion in 1940. [1]
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue stretches southward from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The section in Midtown Manhattan is one of the most expensive shopping streets in the world. [3] Fifth Avenue carries two-way traffic between 143rd and ...
The Broadway and Fifth Avenue facades both contain three projecting trapezoidal oriels [k] on the 7th through 14th stories; each oriel contains three windows per story. [237] [241] At the time of the Flatiron Building's construction, relatively few skyscrapers in New York City used oriels, [238] but they were commonly used in Chicago to break ...
Fifth Avenue and 77th Street in New York City (winter 1905–1906) The house took up 250 feet on 77th Street and 77 feet on Fifth Avenue, more than any other Gilded Age mansion on Fifth opposite the park, with the exception of the Andrew Carnegie Mansion. [3] The Fifth Avenue frontage was large for a New York house, with three bays of granite.
In 1908, Best & Co. spent $500,000 to purchase the former Engineer's Club at 372 Fifth Avenue at 35th Street for a new store, joining an elite group of merchants to locate in that section of Fifth Avenue in the early 1900s, including B. Altman (365 Fifth Avenue), Gorham (390 Fifth Avenue), and Tiffany's (401 Fifth Avenue). [3]
The Charles Scribner's Sons Building, also known as 597 Fifth Avenue, is a commercial structure in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, on Fifth Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets. Designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux Arts style, it was built from 1912 to 1913 for the Scribner's Bookstore .
The Cartier Building, the main New York City store of jeweler Cartier, consists of the Morton F. Plant House at 651–653 Fifth Avenue and the Edward Holbrook House at 4 East 52nd Street. [19] The Plant House was designed by architect Robert W. Gibson in the Neo-Renaissance style for Morton Freeman Plant , [ 19 ] [ 3 ] [ 20 ] a financier who ...