Cameron Building

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186-foot, 16-story early-modern office building completed in 1912. Designed by Clinton & Russell, the main facades on Madison Avenue and 34th Street are three bays and six bays wide, respectively. The lower four floors have limestone piers (painted white at the ground floor) with double-windows divided by thin, black cast-iron mullions; the 2nd-4th floors have cast-iron spandrels with dentils and small gold cartouches at the lower set, and boxes Xs at the upper set. The main entrance is in the northern bay on Madison Avenue, and there is a service entrance at the eastern bay on 34th. The base is capped by a dentiled cornice.

The transitional 4th floor has stone piers, but beige brick around the bays of paired windows. It is capped by a smaller cornice. The upper floors, in beige brick, also have paired windows. The spandrels between floors 6-12 have checkerboard patterns of red and beige brick, and dentiled top and bottoms. The 13th-15th floors set are off by string courses, and have pink carved terra-cotta spandrels. The top floor, in white stone, has three windows per bay and textured piers. Both main facades are crowned by a green copper roof cornice with modillions and dentils.

The east elevation is clad in dark-red brick (beige brick at the edges and across the locations of the cornices and string courses on the south facade), with two bays of windows. There is further beige brick in patterns at the top. The top floors of the north elevation have the same brick combination.