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167-foot, 12-story office building completed in 1909 as the Marbridge Building. Designed by Townsend, Steinle & Haskell, it spans 10 bays on the west side fronting Herald Square, eight bays on the south side, and seven smaller bays on the north side, to the east of the small 5-story building at the corner that the Marbridge Building wraps around. At the interior, above the base, two light courts give the upper floors an E-shape. It was occupied by Rogers, Peet & Co. in the 1910's, and more recently by Publicis ad agency until 2016.

The ground floor on the west facade has been highly altered. It now has grey-painted stone facing at the north end, with a metal-and-glass entry under a silver metal canopy. To the south the ground floor is faced in bright white panels with only three openings: two chrome-framed display windows (one vertical and the other horizontal) and a small, disguised door between them, distinguished only by the curved panels on either side that angle back to the recessed door panel. The southwest corner of the building is chamfered, rounded at the ground floor where there is a corner retail entrance also framed in chrome. The 2nd-3rd floors have rusticated limestone piers, but most of the 2nd floor on this facade is covered by advertising signage. There are four flagpoles projecting out from the base of the 2nd floor above the northern entrance. Each of the ten bays has tripartite windows with transoms above dentiled stone sills - except for the southernmost bay; the outer panes of its tripartite window are separated by stone pilasters with scrolled capitals, and its sill lacks dentils. This bay and the two northern bays have paired console brackets and cartouches supporting the stone cornice capping the base. At the middle bays, the piers are adorned with various carved ornament including pendants, and the cornice doesn't project as far, running above an ornately carved frieze.

The upper floors have paired windows, except in the wider southern bay, which has three windows. All the windows have stone surrounds and projecting sills. Stone quoins framed this bay and the two north bays, where the windows also have projecting cornices, and triangular pediments at the 4th floor. A dentiled runs above the 9th floor, above which the 10th & 11th floors are similar but with a few differences. In the middle section there is paneling at the piers, with stylized capitals at the top, and the 11th-floor windows have brackets on the sills. At the end bays, the windows are separated by 2-story fluted Corinthian columns, there are spandrel panels with rounded brackets, and the piers are adorned with large cartouches. A white, modillioned and dentied roof cornice tops the 11th floor, with the top floor set back slightly above the cornice, with a stone arcade of small, square openings. The chamfered southwest corner matches the design of the west facade.

On the south elevation on 34th Street the white facing of the ground floor continues onto the western half, with one wide and one narrower storefront entrance, both framed in chrome. The eastern part of the ground floor is painted grey, with glass-and-metal storefronts, and a building entrance at the east end, framed in a metal surround and with a metal canopy. The rest of the facade matches that on the west elevation; the 2nd floor is partially uncovered and reveals the paneled spandrels between the 2nd & 3rd floors, with circles in their centers.

The north elevation on 35th Street has twin entrances at the ends. They are framed in stone, with oversized scrolled brackets supporting cornices; above each transom is a cartouche. The eastern entry has glass doors, and the western one has metal service doors. In between there is cast-iron and cinder block infill, and a large vehicle entrance for the underground parking garage. A stone band course between the two entrances is decorated with pairs of rosettes. The 2nd & 3rd floors are rusticated limestone with tall double-windows. The end bays at the 2nd floor have metal louvers in the openings. Additional rosettes decorate the piers at the top of the 2nd floor, and the 3rd-floor windows have triglyph-bracketed stone sills. The base is capped by a band course with an egg-and-dart molding. The upper floors are clad in buff-colored brick. The paired windows in each bay have iron mullions, splayed brick lintels and keystones. Continuous stone sill courses mark each floor up to the 9th, where a dentiled cornice runs. The 10th-11th floors have banded stone piers with stylized capitals and stone-enframed windows with keystones. The cornice and top floor match those on the other facades. The walls at the west end above the 5-story building on the corner are clad in brown brick; the shorter west-facing wall has a bay of single-windows.

The ground floor is occupied by Happy Socks, and Ulta cosmetics.

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