Hudson Research Center (New York City, New York)

 office building, laboratories, Art Deco (architecture)

10-story Art-Deco office building completed in 1930. Designed by Thomas W. Lamb, it is clad in light-beige brick above a ground floor with granite piers (light-grey with black bases), large steel-framed windows, and a band of grey metal paneling across the top. The south facade on 54th Street is framed by end pavilions, with the main entrance in the eastern one, with a revolving glass door and traditional glass door in a black granite surround. The west end pavilion has a secondary entrance with a glass door recessed atop a couple steps and next to a window. There are also black granite bands at the base of each bay, below large 4-over-2 windows with metal louvers at the tops. Another secondary entrance with glass-and-metal double-doors in inserted into the east half of the 2nd main bay from the east; there are five main bays in total.

The upper floors of the south facade have paired windows in the end pavilions, and triple-windows divided by black metal mullions in the five main bays, each slightly recessed between the brick piers. The brick spandrels between floors each have horizontal brick bands, except for below the top floors, where they have zig-zags with vertical ribbing above the zig-zags and abstract Art-Deco designs below them. The piers are topped by capitals with more Art-Deco patterns, rising slightly above the roof line, which is marked by a stone band, slightly scalloped with the metal mullions below expressed as stone ribs. There is a narrow, recessed section attached to the far west end, with small, square balconies with metal railings, each opened onto by a black metal door from the south and west walls that wrap around it.

The north facade on 55th Street is narrower, with three main bays of triple-windows between the paired-window end pavilions. The ground floor is also brick, with large garage doors with roll-down metal gates and metal service doors at the east end.

The building is currently owned by Silverstein Properties with Elevate Research Properties. Tenants include the New York Stem Cell Foundation.

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