Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue looking north from 40th Street

The Madison Avenue is a street in Manhattan in New York City . It runs as a one-way street from Madison Square (on 23rd Street ) in the south to Harlem River Drive (on 142nd Street ) in the north, where it becomes Madison Avenue Bridge . It is located between the parallel streets Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue . It runs through Midtown , the Upper East Side , East Harlem and Harlem . It is named after Madison Square, whose name goes back to James Madison , fourth President of the United States. The road has a length of 9.7 km.

Madison Avenue was not part of the original Commissioners' plan of 1811 but was not built until 1836 through the efforts of politician and lawyer Samuel B. Ruggles .

Madison Avenue is known for various advertising agencies that have settled on this street. The name Madison Avenue is now also a metonym for the American advertising industry .

Significant buildings

The buildings are sorted in the order of their house numbers, which are numbered from south to north. The full address that the building occupies is always given. This is not always the same as the postal address used today. For example , the building designated 383 Madison Avenue is located on lots 377–391 Madison Avenue.

No.	description	Architects	Construction period	demolition	Illustration
East 23rd Street
1-7	Metropolitan Life Building East Wing (old building)	Napoleon Le Brun & Sons	1893	1950s
1-7	Metropolitan Life Building East Wing (new building)		1950s	-
9	Madison Square Presbyterian Church (1854)	Richard Upjohn	1854	1907
9	Metropolitan Life Tower	Napoleon Le Brun & Sons	1907-09	-
East 24th Street
11	Madison Square Presbyterian Church (1906)	Stanford White for McKim, Mead, and White	1904-06	1919
17th	Pullman Building	William H. Gompert	before 1912	before 1928
19th	Farragut Building		before 1912	before 1928
21-25	Madison Avenue Building		between 1910-12	before 1928
11-25	Metropolitan Life North Building	Harvey Wiley Corbett , D. Everett Waid	1928-50	-
East 25th Street
27-29	Appellate Division Courthouse of New York State	James Brown Lord	1896-99	-
39-41	Leonard Jerome Mansion	Thomas R. Jackson	1859-65	1967
39-41	New York Merchandise Mart	Emery Roth & Sons	-1974	-
East 26th Street
? -61	New York and Harlem Rail Road Depot, from 1874 part of the Great Roman Hippodrome		between 1854-57	1889
43–?	New York and New Haven Rail Road Depot		between 1854-57	1874
43–?	Great Roman Hippodrome, from 1876 Gilmore's Garden, from 1879 Madison Square Garden I (the NY and Harlem Rail Road Depot was part of the complex)		1874	1889
43-61	Madison Square Garden II	Stanford White	1890	1926
43-61	New York Life Insurance Building	Cass Gilbert	1926-28	-
East 27th Street
64	Mott Memorial Medical Library		before 1893	after 1893
East 28th Street
79-87	81 Madison Avenue	Warren & Wetmore	1924	-
80-84	Episcopal Church		before 1854	between 1859-89
89-95	Emmet Building		1912	-
90-94	Rutgers Presbyterian Church, from 1889 Scottish Rite Hall		1873	circa 1901
90-94	Hotel Seville	Harry Allen Jacob	1901-04	-
East 29th Street
105-117	105 Madison Avenue	Buchman & Fox	1912-13	-
East 30th Street
120	Colony Club, now the American Academy of Dramatic Arts Building	Stanford White for McKim, Mead, and White	1904-08	-
127	127 Madison Avenue	SHoP Architects (2008)	unknown 2008 (renovation)	-
131-133	Madison Avenue Baptist Church		1858	1930
131-133	Hotel Roger Williams (with Madison Avenue Baptist Church)	Jardine, Hill & Murdock	1930	-
East 31st Street
East 32nd Street
East 33rd Street
181	Madison Belmont Building	Warren & Wetmore	1924-25	-
East 34th Street
188-189	B. Altman & Company Building	Trowbridge & Livingston	1906-13	-
East 35th Street
205-209	Church of the Incarnation, Episcopal (rebuilt after a fire in 1882)	Emlen T. Littel (1865) David Jardine (1882)	1864–65, reconstruction in 1882	-
East 36th Street
219	John Jay Phelps House, from 1882 JP Morgan House		1853	1927
219	Extension to the Morgan Library & Museum	Benjamin Wistar Morris	1927-28	-
225	Residential building		1853	before 1902	the middle of the three houses
225	Morgan Library & Museum	Charles McKim for McKim, Mead, and White (1907) Renzo Piano (2006)	1902-07 2006 (renovation)	-
229– 231	Isaac Newton Phelps House, then Anson Phelps Stokes House from 1904 JP Morgan Jr. House, from 1944 headquarters of the Lutheran Church in America, from 1988 part of the Morgan Library & Museum	RH Robertson (1888)	1852-53 1888 (renovation)	-
East 37th Street
233	Joseph Raphael De Lamar House, now the Polish Consulate	CPH Gilbert	1902-05	-
241	NH Jolly Madison Towers Hotel	Murgatroyd & Ogden	1923	-
245	Zion Protestant Episcopal Church, from 1890 South Reformed Dutch Church		1854	after 1893
East 38th Street
East 39th Street
East 40th Street
295-297	Lefcourt Colonial Building	Charles F. Moyer Company, Bark & Djorup	1930	-
East 41st Street
300-314	300 Madison Avenue	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	2001-03	-
305	Lincoln Building	James Edwin Ruthvin Carpenter	1928-30	-
East 42nd Street
319	Holy Trinity Episcopal Church	Jacob Wrey Mold	-1874	1895
315-331	One Vanderbilt	Kohn Pedersen Fox	since 2017	-
316-330	Sperry & Hutchinson Building	Kahn & Jacobs	-1964	-
East 43rd Street
333-339	New York Biltmore Hotel	Warren and Wetmore (1913) Environetics Architects (1983)	1912-13 1981–83 (renovation)	-	before the renovation after the renovation
East 44th Street
346-348	St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church	James Renwick Jr. (1876) Stanford White (1903)	1872-76 1902-03 (reconstruction)	after 1918
347-355	Church of the Disciples, later Madison Avenue Congregational Church		-1873	1889
347-355	Manhattan Athletic Club, later Tiffany Studios		1889	1917
347-355	Equitable Trust Building		1917-18	-
East 45th Street
361-371	The Roosevelt Hotel	George B. Post & Son	-1924	-
East 46th Street
377-391	Bear Stearns Building, now 383 Madison Avenue	David Childs for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	1999-2001	-
East 47th Street
East 48th Street
East 49th Street
433-443	ITT-American Building	Emery Roth & Sons	-1967	-
East 50th Street
451-457	Villard Houses	Joseph Wells , Stanford White for McKim, Mead, and White	1884	-
454-458	St. Patrick's Cathedral	James Renwick Jr.	1858-78	-	View from Madison Avenue
East 51st Street
484-492	Look building	Emery Roth & Sons	1948-50	-
East 52nd Street
East 53rd Street
East 54th Street
East 55th Street
549-553	First Reformed Episcopal Church		before 1893	after 1916
550-570	AT&T Building , later Sony Building, now 550 Madison Avenue	Philip Johnson	1980-84	-
East 56th Street
572-590	IBM Building	Edward Larrabee Barnes	-1983	-
East 57th Street
595-599	Fuller Building	Walker & Gillette	-1929	-
East 58th Street
619-629	Lenox Lyceum		before 1891	after 1907
East 59th Street
...
East 64th Street
? -750	synagogue		between 1862-93	after 1907
East 65th Street
East 66th Street
773-779	Church of the Holy Spirit (Episcopal) / All Souls' Church, Protestant Episcopal		before 1892	after 1893
East 67th Street
East 68th Street
East 69th Street
East 70th Street
843-863	Presbyterian Hospital		before 1892	after 1892
East 71st Street
865	St. James' Episcopal Church		1885	-
867	Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo House	Kimball & Thompson	1895-98	-
East 72nd Street
896-898	Charles L. Tiffany Residence		before 1893	after 1916
902–?	St. James' Lutheran Church		before 1893	after 1916
East 73rd Street
921	Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
East 74th Street
945	Whitney Museum of American Art, now Met Breuer	Marcel Breuer	1966	-
East 75th Street
...
East 94th Street
1341	Squadron A Armory		1895	-
East 95th Street
...
East 142nd Street
-	Madison Avenue Bridge	Alfred P. Boller	1907-10	-