The Grand Madison

225 5th Avenue | also 2 East 27th Street | NoMad | built 1907

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1907
The Brunswick Building rises on the site of the old Brunswick Hotel
A group of investors first considered erecting a modern hotel on the site of the shuttered Brunswick Hotel, but built this 12-story office building instead in 1907, designed by architects Francis H. Kimball and Harry E. Donnell in a Renaissance Revival style with a limestone base, red brick shaft and an ornate cast-iron balcony wrapping the entire eleventh floor.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
1929
F. W. Woolworth opens a five-and-dime store in the Brunswick Building
The F. W. Woolworth Company leased 26,000 square feet in the Brunswick Building in 1929 to open one of its five-and-dime stores, joining tenants that over the prior two decades had included the Carrere & Hastings architecture firm, a terra cotta manufacturer and Oriental rug importers.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
2008
ElAd Properties converts the office building into The Grand Madison
Developer ElAd Properties converted the century-old Brunswick Building into 195 luxury apartments in 2008 and renamed it The Grand Madison. The building, by then part of the Madison Square North Historic District, later had its common spaces renovated starting in 2012 by Rawlins Design.
Source: Wikipedia

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