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718 Fifth Avenue
718 Fifth Avenue
718 Fifth Avenue. Steuben Glass building
IMAGE DATE1937
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Museum of the City of New York
Museum of the City of New York718 Fifth Avenue ca. 1937
718 Fifth Avenue was designed by Platt and Platt in 1937. The grand five-story structure on Fifth Avenue and 56th Street announcing glass as the epitome of modernity. The façade of Indiana limestone and 2 large windows made of 3,800 square panes of translucent glass at night revealed divisions between floors and diagonal bracing, all the while showcasing the glass, another architectural advertisement.
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Museum of the City of New York