300 Park Avenue South

300 Park Avenue South (previously the Mills & Gibb Building[1] and currently also known as The Creative Arts Center) is a building on the northwest corner of East 22nd Street in the Flatiron District/Gramercy Park neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City.

300 Park Avenue South
300 Park Avenue South
Former names	Mills & Gibb building
General information
Type	Commercial
Architectural style	Beaux-Arts
Location	300 Park Avenue South, Manhattan, New York, 10010
Completed	1911
Height
Roof	192 feet (59 m)
Technical details
Floor count	16
Design and construction
Architect	Starrett & van Vleck
Developer	Mills & Gibb

History

The 16-story Beaux-Arts style building was to a design by Starrett & van Vleck.[2] Built in 1911 for Mills & Gibb on the site of the old Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church,[3] it boasted a frontage of 114 feet (35 m) on Fourth Avenue and 100 feet (30 m) on Twenty-second Street.[2] The Beaux-Arts style building was completed in 1911. Its automatic sprinklers were supplied with water by two steel pressure tanks of 9,000 gallons capacity each, located in a fireproof house on the roof. They were connected together, with gate and check valves at each, and discharge through a dead riser running down through the building to the basement. The ornamental iron partitions glazed with wireglass that separated each floor from the main stairway were furnished by the Winslow Brothers' Company. "Richardson" seamless kalameined fire doors protected the openings on the passenger elevator shaft. furnished by the J. F. Blanchard Company, these doors were finished with Verdi antique enamel. The entire steel frame was fireproofed with terra cotta hollow tile furnished by Henry Maurer & Son, New York City.[4]

It is currently occupied by the Smithsonian Institution's New York Research Center,[5] the New York State Council on the Arts, Wilhelmina Models, FanDuel, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Rockrose Development Corporation is the landlord.[6]

References

Notes

1. "300 Park Avenue South". emporis.com. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
2. American Carpet and Upholstery Journal. 28 (Public domain ed.). 1910. pp. 35, 88–.
3. Watson, Edward B.; Gillon, Edmund V. (2 August 2012). New York Then and Now. Courier Corporation. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-0-486-13106-1.
4. Environmental Control & Safety Management. 19-20 (Public domain ed.). New York: The Insurance Press. 1910. pp. 378, 398, 400–.
5. "Archives of American Art". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
6. Cuozzo, Steve (June 22, 2010). "Wilhelmina in lease renewal". New York Post. Retrieved 2 January 2015.

Sources

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: The Insurance Press' "Environmental Control & Safety Management" (1910)

External links

• Media related to 300 Park Avenue South at Wikimedia Commons