McGraw Hill Building

The McGraw Hill Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Howells & Hood and built between 1930 and 1931 in New York, NY.

Its precise street address is 330 West 42nd Street, New York, NY. You can also find it on the map here.

The McGraw Hill 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 McGraw Hill Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on March 28^th 1980, and was also included in the New York Register of Historic Places on September 11^th 1979.

Howells & Hood was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design. But there was also one other architect involved, as far as we know. We are talking about André Fouilhoux.

Howells & Hood and the other architects already mentioned were in charge of the architectural design, however, architecture is a complex discipline, which usually involves 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 at the very least we know that there was one other part involved, that was Jarres McGraw as the Main Developer.

The McGraw Hill Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The McGraw Hill Building was completed in 1931, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The McGraw Hill 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 blue-green terracotta ceramic tiles covering the facade. This matches the window frames which are made out of green metal.

Another material found at the McGraw Hill Building is gold and silver colored metal, used in bands to decorate the curved walls of the main entrance.