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Aeolian American Corporation Building, Fifth Avenue
Aeolian American Corporation Building, Fifth Avenue

54th Street and Fifth Avenue. I. Miller shoe store, formerly Aeolian Building

IMAGE DATE1939
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Aeolian Building ARCHITECT: Warren & Wetmore DATE: 1925-27 STYLE: Neo-Classical

The Aeolian Building was constructed to the design of architects Warren & Wetmore, a firm best known for its designs for hotels and railroad-related buildings. Designed in a restrained and graceful neo-Classical style with French Renaissance style detailing, the Aeolian Building is clad in Indiana limestone with Italian marble spandrel panels, and buff-colored terracotta on the upper portion.

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