1501 Broadway Building

The 1501 Broadway Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Rapp and Rapp, and built between 1926 and 1927, for a reported $13.5 million dollars, in New York, NY.

1501 Broadway Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. The building is, or has also been known as Paramount Building.

Its precise street address is 1501 Broadway, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The 1501 Broadway Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of New York and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the 1501 Broadway Building was officially declared as a national landmark on November 1^st 1988.

Rapp and Rapp was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the 1501 Broadway Building a reality:

• R. E. Hall & Co in charge of Structural Engineering
• Thompson-Starrett Company as the Main Contractor
• Famous Players–Lasky as the Main Developer

The 1501 Broadway Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The 1501 Broadway Building was completed in 1927, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The 1501 Broadway Building uses a frame structure made of steel columns and concrete slabs.

A frame structure uses a combination of beams and columns to sustain the building's weight. The walls in this case are non-load bearing, which allows for more flexibility when distributing the interior spaces.

The facade is non-load bearing either, as it is common in frame structure type buildings.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features limestone for the most part of it, from its base to the piers and trims, as well as the four-faced clock above the 30th floor. Cooper is used in the top pedestal with an ornamental glass sphere.