350 Seventh Avenue (New York City, New York)

 office building, high-rise, Neo-Gothic (architecture), 1927_construction

246-foot, 21-story Neo-Gothic office building completed in 1927. Designed by Sugarman & Berger, it consists of an L-shaped tower wrapping around a 4-story lower wing at the southeast corner of the block. The facades are clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base. At the 4-story wing, the 4th floor is clad in brick of a lighter shade.

The main entrance is at the north end of the main tower section on the avenue, with metal-framed glass double-doors set in a pointed-arch within a drip molding. To the left is a black iron storefront with four round-arched windows and upper and lower vents, and a matching entrance bay at the south end, into the ground-floor commercial space. The 4-story wing to the south has metal-and-glass storefronts along its ground floor, and a chamfered southeast corner. The ground floor is capped by a black iron band with a Gothic pattern, extending all both facades of the 4-story wing. A matching band extends over the storefront at the middle of the tower portion on the avenue. The 2nd & 3rd floors of the south wing have ribbon bands of windows in black metal framing, while the east facade of the tower has similar 4-window bands at the middle bay, and single-windows above the entrances below. The 3rd floor is capped by a stone band with decorative brackets, across both the tower and the lower south wing. At the west end of the 4-story wing's south facade is a service door, with single-windows on the upper floors.

The tower's south wing is separated from the 4-story section by a different 4-story building in between. The ground floor of the tower's south wing has a freight entrance with black metal double-doors in a pointed-arch, with another storefront to the left. The 2nd floor has a wide west bay with a band of six windows above a black iron band with a quatrefoil pattern; to the right is a shorter double-window. The 3rd floor has a smaller 5-window band on the left and a 3-window opening on the right. The same bracketed stone band caps the 3rd floor here as well.

The 4th floor of the 4-story wing is brick, with a 3-window bay in the middle, a bay of paired windows on either side, and a single-window at the west end. The east facade has two bays each with four windows, and there is another single-window in the angled southeast corner.

The upper floors of the east facade of the tower have three windows in the middle, and end bays with similar single-windows. The brick spandrels between floors have brick squares with simple brick cross-patterns in the middles. There is a setback above the 17th floor, marked by stone panels with paired round-arches. There is a very shallow setback above the 20th floor, with similar panels only above the middle three windows.

The upper floors of the south wing of the tower's "L" have a bay of three windows on the left, and two on the right. The left side sets back above the 7th floor, with additional cascading setbacks above the 11th, 14th, & 17th floors, and a shallower setback above the 20th. The narrow east side has a setback above the 17th floor, with a very shallow one above the 20th.

The south-facing elevation of the east wing of the tower has a bay of three windows at the west edge, followed by a bay of two windows (the western one framed by a vertical bands of orange- and black-tinted brick), a single-window bay framed by projecting piers, and another bay of two windows with the eastern one framed by the same colored brick bands. A final single-window bay at the east end terminates at the 17th-floor setback.

The east-facing elevation of the south wing of the tower has three single-windows (with vertical colored-brick bands framing the south bay, and another pair of bands running up the wall to the north of the windows). The west elevation of the south wing is clad in brown brick, and has a 4-window bay and two 3-window bays, with single-window end bays, with the southern windows eliminated as the setbacks occur.

The ground floor is occupied by Bagel Pub, with Pret-A-Manger restaurant, International Wine Center, Tipsy Shanghai restaurant, and a convenience store at the 4-story wing.