462 Seventh Avenue (New York City, New York)

 office building, high-rise, Neo-Gothic (architecture), 1926_construction

283-foot, 24-story Neo-Gothic office building completed in 1926. Designed by Charles B. Meyers, it is clad in brown brick above a 3-story painted limestone base. The east facade on 7th Avenue is four bays wide, with the northern bay smaller; and the south facade on 35th is has five bays, with the westernmost bay smaller. The main entrance is in the northern bay on the avenue; it serves both 462 and 470 Seventh Avenue, which are joined at the ground floor. To the south the three wider bays are each split into two parts - a storefront window and doorway. The ground floor rests on a water table of polished grey granite, which also frames the recessed entries to the storefronts and one small secondary entrance on 35th Street, tucked next to one of the four smaller show windows of the four main bays. The westernmost bay has a service entrance framed in unpainted limestone; there are metal louvers above the doors/windows of the three western bays. At the top of the ground floor, between each bay there are round blue dots framed in white. The 2nd & 3rd floors have tripartite windows, with dentiled sills at the 2nd floor, and patterned stone spandrels between the two floors. Both openings at the westernmost bay on the south side are filled by metal louvers. The base is capped by a cornice carried on modillions with carved wolves' heads, and decorated with a band of alternating circle and shield shapes separated by diminutive columns.

The upper floors have three windows in each bay, except for the narrower north and west bays, which each have two. The brick spandrels have five vertical recessed panels, and the windows have stone sills - with pointed dentils at the 5th floor. The spandrels between the 5th & 6th floors differ; they each have diminutive stone columns dividing them into three parts, with three small stone round-arches at the bottom and small modillions along the top. The piers here have stone ornament above tall, narrow recessed areas below. These recessed areas have stone bases with pointed dentils that align with the dentils at the sills of the 5th-floor windows. Between the 14th & 15th floors there are projecting stone cylinders between each window, and pairs at the piers. These repeat above the 16th floor, where they serve as bases for projecting columns framing each window at the 17th floor. The columns have similar caps to the bases at the top of the 17th floor, with additional matching pairs of caps between each column, above the windows. There is a small setback above this floor, with additional setbacks above the 19th, 21st & 23rd floors. These features are all matched on the south facade.

The exposed upper north and west elevations are clad in brown brick, with some bays of single-window without ornamentation. A painted sign is at the east end of the top floors on the north facade.

The ground floor is occupied by a Starbucks coffee, Hale & Hearty restaurant, and Bread and Butter deli.