Madison Square Building (New York City, New York) | office building

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272-foot, 20-story Neo-Medieval office building completed in 1912. Designed by Maynicke & Franke, It has frontages on both East 26th and 27th Streets. Both 5-bay sides have a 3-story limestone base featuring historic arched entryways at the ends with molded hoods and finials. The three middle bays have rounded corners and modern replacement windows with black metal framing. Similar windows frame the modern double-door in the center bay, which is covered by a curved metal and frosted glass canopy.

There are segmental-arches above the 3rd-story tripartite windows in the three middle bays, decorative cast-iron columns, paneled spandrels, and a bracketed crown with owl-gargoyles. The transitional brick 4th floor also features carved gargoyles and diamond-shape ornament above the deeply-recessed paired windows of the middle bays and the single-windows in the end bays.

The shaft is clad in buff-colored brick, with projecting piers, paneled spandrels, bracketed moldings, and has segmental-arches over the middle bays at the 17th floor. The 3-story crown is decorated by terra-cotta panels culminating in rounded-arches at the top floor, and has a bracketed pale-green copper roof cornice.

The 27th-Street facade mirrors that on 26th, but without the grand entrance at the center of the ground floor. The three middle bays here have rounded corners, tripartite windows, and leaded glass transoms. The ground floor is occupied by Blackbarn restaurant.