200 Madison Avenue

The building at 200 Madison Avenue was designed by the firm Warren and Wetmore, the same architects behind the grand concourse of Grand Central Terminal. Completed in 1926, the structure served a dual purpose during its earliest years, split between a luxury apartment hotel on the lower floors and professional offices in the tower above. While the hotel experiment proved short-lived and failed by 1939, the transition left the building with an unusual architectural legacy that you can still see today.