Art Deco in the Fabulous Fifties: From the Panhellenic Tower to the Brill Building

Art Deco in the Fabulous Fifties: From the Panhellenic Tower to the Brill Building

About the Program

Join ADSNY as we take in a wide variety of Midtown Manhattan Deco, from the cluster of modernistic residences along the East River ranging from the celebrity-heavy River House to Southgate apartments and the Beekman Tower Hotel; to the superstar General Electric skyscraper; the legendary Waldorf-Astoria on Park and Lexington Avenues; ending with the Brill Building, the new home for Tin Pan Alley.

Highlights include:

The General Electric Building - the only Deco tower that can rival the Chrysler Building – architect John Walter Cross described the commission as “challenging us to depict in design the very fundamentals of our universe”

The Waldorf-Astoria – the city’s grandest Deco hostelry – currently emerging from a three-year-and-counting restoration

The Brill Building - once home to the nation’s music industry and known for the “Brill Building Sound”

The august, sedately modernistic River House, whose apartments, ranging from eight to eleven rooms, were described in 1931 as “private homes in a skyscraper.”

About the Guide:
Anthony W. Robins has been guiding natives and visitors to the city’s wonders of steel and stone for twenty-five years. He has led hundreds of walking tours of New York history and architecture. A founding member of ADSNY, Robins created the Society’s original tour program in 1981. In 2017, the Guides Association of New York City honored him with the “Guiding Spirit Award.” He lectures on New York history and architecture to audiences both in the United States and abroad, teaches various levels of students about architecture and the development of New York City, and has authored five books and a number of short guide books, as well as many newspaper and magazine articles. His latest award-winning book, New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture, explores Art Deco throughout the five boroughs.

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