330 West 42nd Street

330 West 42nd Street

Infobox_nrhp | name =McGraw Hill Building
nrhp_type =nhl



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location= 330 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City, New YorkNrhp source1|NY|New+York|state6] "AIA Guide to New York City", 4th Edition, pg 254]
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built =1931
architect= Raymond Hood [ [http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceID=1831&resourceType=Building NL Writeup] ]
architecture= International Style, Art Deco, Art Moderne [ [http://www.nr.nps.gov/writeups/80002701.nl.pdf NL Writeup2] ]
designated= June 29, 1989cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1831&ResourceType=Building
title=McGraw Hill Building|date=2007-09-15|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service
]
added = March 28, 1980cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=80002701

330 West 42nd Street is also known as the McGraw Hill Building. The original McGraw-Hill building on 42nd Street (33 stories, 485 ft / 148 m) was completed in 1931, the same year as the completion of the Empire State Building. The architect was Raymond Hood. The exterior walls of the building are panels of blue-green terra-cotta ceramic tiles, alternating with green-metal-framed windows, with a strongly horizontal orientation. The building was the only New York building shown in the influential International Style exhibition in 1932, and it's also been cited as a landmark of Art Deco design. Located on West 42nd Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, one of the two blocks that also houses the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the McGraw-Hill Building had been the tallest building in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood for decades. It lost that status with the building of One Worldwide Plaza. It is still visible from a distance, but is dwarfed by the newly constructed Orion Building on the same block, a 58-story tall residential complex, also with a green exterior.

The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.cite web|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/80002701.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: McGraw Hill Building|author=Carolyn Pitts|date=1989-02-09|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/80002701.pdf Accompanying 8 photos, exterior and interior, from 1984.] |1.52 MB]

The building is situated on a site which the Larkin Company in 1926 proposed to build the world's tallest building -- the Larkin Building -- at 110 floors and 1,208 feet. [ [http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5949&page=3 New Far West 42nd Street Developments - wirednewyork.com] ]

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