ART DECO METROPOLIS
Landmarks
Unofficial List of
Officially Designated New York City Landmarks
in the Art Deco Style

NEW!

Most New York City Landmarks are also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register equivalent of a designation report is a "nomination." And now, every single such nomination for National Register properties in New York State is available on-line. To find out how to access the site, find nominations, and download them, please visit the Urban Genealogy web site, click on "An Introduction to On-Line Research," and scroll down to "Existing building histories."

An abbreviated list, based on New York Landmarks Preservation Commission information. Individual designation reports on each one can be ordered from the Landmarks Commission. Or you can order the Commission's Guide to New York City Landmarks from Amazon.com by clicking on the image.

Those buildings that are underlined have designation reports that are available on-line at the Landmarks Commission's web site. Right click to download (they are large .pdf files).

(Note: doesn't include Art Deco buildings inside historic districts unless they were previously designated as individual landmarks, e.g., the Century, Majestic and Eldorado apartments)

Bronx   Brooklyn   Manhattan   Queens   Staten Island

Manhattan -- Downtown   Midtown   Uptown

Downtown

21 West Street, Starrett & Van Vleck, 1929-31

Bankers Trust Building, 14 Wall Street, addition, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon 1931-33

Barclay Vesey Building (edge of Deco), 140 West Street, McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin, 1923-27

City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building (edge of Deco), 20 Exchange Place, Cross & Cross, 1930-31

Downtown Athletic Club, 19 West Street, and its neighboring office building (now apartments) at 21 West Street, both by Starrett & Van Vleck, 1929-30

Irving Trust Company (formerly - now Bank of New York), 1 Wall Street, Voorhees Gmelin & Walker, 1931

Long Distance Building of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, now AT&T Headquarters, 32 Sixth Avenue, Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, 1930-32

Manhattan Company Building (edge of Deco), 40 Wall Street, H. Craig Severance, 1929-30

New School for Social Research interior, Joseph Urban, 1930-31

Western Union Building, 60 Hudson Street, Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, 1928-30.

Midtown

2 Park Avenue, Ely Jacques Kahn, 1926-28

American Radiator Building (edge of Deco), 40 West 40th Street, Raymond Hood, 1923-24

Beaux-Arts Apartments, 307 and 310 East 44th Street, Kenneth M. Murchison and Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux, 1929-30

Beaux-Arts Institute of Design (edge of Deco), 304 East 44th Street, Dennison & Hirons, 1928

Chanin Building, 122 East 42nd Street, Irwin S. Chanin with Sloan & Robertson, 1927-29

Chrysler Building (and lobby), 405 Lexington Avenue, William Van Alen, 1928-30

Daily News Building (and lobby), 220 East 42nd Street, Raymond M. Hood, 1929-30

Empire State Building (and lobby), 350 Fifth Avenue, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1929-31

Film Center Building lobby, 630 Ninth Avenue, Ely Jacques Kahn, 1928-29

Fuller Building (and lobby), 41 East 57th Street, Walker & Gillette, 1928-20

General Electric Building, 570 Lexington Avenue (originally RCA Building), Cross & Cross, 1929-31

Goelet Building, now Swiss Center, and lobbies, 608 Fifth Avenue, Victor L.S. Hafner and Edward Hall Faile, 1930-32

Hearst Magazine Building, 951-969 Eighth Avenue, Joseph Urban, 1927-28

L.P. Hollander & Company Building, 3 East 57th Street, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1929-30

McGraw Hill Building, 330 West 42nd Street, Raymond Hood, Godley & Fouilhoux, 1930-31.

Panhellenic Tower, now the Beekman Tower Hotel, 3 Mitchell Place, John Mead Howells, 1928

Rockefeller Center, Associated Architects and others, 1931-1955 (for the last additions), including the lobbies of 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the International Building, and the lobby and auditorium of Radio City Music Hall

Starrett-Lehigh Building, 601-625 West 26th Street, Cory & Cory, 1930-31

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 301 Park Avenue, Schultze & Weaver, 1929-31

Uptown

Century Apartments, 25 Central Park West, Irwin S. Chanin, 1931

Eldorado Apartments, 300 Central Park West, Margon & Holder, 1929-31

Kent Automatic Parking Garage, now Sofia Apartments, 33-43 West 61st Street, Jardine, Hill & Murdock, 1929-30

Majestic Apartments, 115 Central Park West, Irwin S. Chanin, 1930-31

Master Building, 310-312 Riverside Drive, Helmle, Corbett & Harrison, 1928-29

Midtown Theater, now Metro Theater, 2624-2626 Broadway, Boak & Paris, 1932-33

Normandy Apartments, 140 Riverside Drive, Emery Roth & Sons, 1939-39

369th Regiment Armory, administration building, 2360 Fifth Avenue, Van Wart & Wein, 1930-33

Bronx

Bronx County Building (edge of Deco), 851 Grand Concourse, Max Hausle and Joseph H. Freedlander, 1931-35

Dollar Savings Bank (and banking hall), 2516-2530 Grand Concourse, Halsey, McCormack & Helmer, 1932-33, with additions in 1937-38 and 1949-52

Herman Ridder Junior High School, 1619 Boston Road, Walter C. Martin, 1929-31

Park Plaza Apartments, 1005 Jerome Avenue, Horace Ginsberg and Marvin Fine, 1929-31

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Public Library (edge of Deco), Central Building, Grand Army Plaza, Githens & Keally, 1941

Long Island Headquarters of the New York Telephone Company, 97-105 Willoughby Street, Ralph Walker (of Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker), 1929-30.

Queens

J. Kurtz & Sons Store, 162-24 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Allmendinger & Schlendorf, 1931

La Casina, 90-33 160th Street, Jamaica, c.1933

Marine Air Terminal, and interior, La Guardia Airport, Delano & Aldrich, 1939-40

Suffolk Title and Guarantee Building, Jamaica, Queens, Dennison & Hirons, 1929

Staten Island

Lane Theater lobby and auditorium, 168 New Dorp Lane, John Eberson, 1937-38