130 West 57th Street, Office building in Midtown Manhattan, United States
130 West 57th Street is a fifteen-story office building in Midtown Manhattan, situated between Sixth and Seventh Avenue, and listed as a New York City Landmark. Its lower floors are faced with limestone, the upper stories are built in brick, and the facade is defined by large metal-framed studio windows.
The architects Pollard and Steinam designed the building in 1907, originally planning it as a mix of artist studios, residences, and office spaces. It went up at a moment when Midtown Manhattan was shifting from a largely residential area into a center of business and cultural life.
The building was long home to a mix of artists, musicians, and professionals who shared its studios and offices side by side. This kind of mixed use was common in early Manhattan, where creative and business life often occupied the same floors.
The building sits close to Carnegie Hall and the southern edge of Central Park, so it fits naturally into a walk through this part of Midtown. The main entrance is on West 57th Street, a busy through street that is easy to reach by subway or on foot from nearby hotels and transit hubs.
Writer William Dean Howells and musician Ray Charles each kept spaces here at different points in time, as did the Rolling Stones. It is rare for a single office building to have hosted such a range of well-known figures from literature and music.
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