Bryant Park Hotel (original) City University of New York (annex)
Height
Roof
338 ft (103 m)
Technical details
Floor count
23
Floor area
77,000 sq ft (7,200 m2) (original) 75,000 to 91,000 sq ft (7,000 to 8,500 m2) (annex)
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Raymond Hood and André Fouilhoux
American Radiator Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New York State Register of Historic Places
New York City Landmark No. 0878
Location
40 West 40th Street Manhattan, New York City
Area
7,604 sq ft (706.4 m2)
NRHP reference No.
80002663[1]
NYSRHP No.
06101.000631[2]
NYCL No.
0878
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
May 7, 1980[1]
Designated NYSRHP
June 23, 1980[2]
Designated NYCL
November 12, 1974[3]
The American Radiator Building (also known as the American Standard Building) is an early skyscraper at 40 West 40th Street, just south of Bryant Park, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was designed by Raymond Hood and André Fouilhoux in the Gothic and Art Deco styles for the American Radiator Company. The original section of the American Radiator Building, a 338 ft-tall (103 m), 23-story tower, was completed in 1924. A five-story annex, to the west of the original tower, was built from 1936 to 1937.
The original structure consists of an eighteen-story tower above a base of five stories, while the western annex only rises five stories. The American Radiator Building's facade is made predominantly of black brick. Gold-colored decorations are used on the building's setbacks and pinnacles. Hood had intended for the original structure to be a standalone shaft, requiring the building to be set back from the lot line and reducing the maximum amount of space available. Inside, the basement, first, and second floors were originally designed as exhibition showrooms, while the upper stories served as office space.
The building was completed five years before the American Radiator Company merged with Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company to form American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corporation, later known as American Standard. American Standard sold the building in 1988 to a Japanese company. The main building was sold in 1998 to Philip Pilevsky, who opened the Bryant Park Hotel there in 2001. The annex operated as the Katharine Gibbs School from 2001 to 2009 and was converted into the City University of New York's Guttman Community College in 2012. The American Radiator Building is a New York City designated landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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