One Grand Central Place
60 East 42nd Street | also 305 Madison Avenue, 303 Madison Avenue, 43 East 41st Street | Midtown | built 1929
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1910
An earlier Lincoln Safe Deposit Company building faces the old Grand Central Depot
A Museum of the City of New York photograph from about 1910 shows the former Lincoln Safe Deposit Company building, put up as the nineteenth century closed. It stood on 42nd Street diagonally across from the old Grand Central Depot and housed a branch of the Lincoln National Bank. The area changed quickly with the new Grand Central Terminal and electric trains, and the Lincoln Building later replaced it. This entry is about an earlier building on the lot.
Source: mappingnyc.mcny.org
- 1930
The Lincoln Building is named for two tenants, not the president
The Lincoln Building did not take its name from Abraham Lincoln directly. It was named for two major tenants whose names carried his, the Lincoln National Bank and the Lincoln Storage Company. Tudor City ran a 1930 advertisement pitched to workers in the newly opened building.
Source: tudorcityconfidential.com
- 1930
The neo-Gothic Lincoln Building is completed at 60 East 42nd Street
Kenneth Norton of J.E.R. Carpenter's architecture firm designed the 55-story office tower, which was finished in 1930 and reaches 673 feet. Gothic windows mark its upper floors. Grand Central Terminal lies to the north, and the building offers direct in-building access to it.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1956
Lawrence Wien puts a Daniel Chester French Lincoln model on display in the lobby
In 1956 Lawrence Wien bought a three-foot bronze model of Abraham Lincoln from French's daughter, Margaret French Cresson, for $3,000. The model was cast from one of the sketches used for the statue in the Lincoln Memorial. Wien displayed it in the lobby that year. It was lent to the Chesterwood estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, when the building was renamed in 2009, and it returned to the lobby on April 15, 2015.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2009
The Lincoln Building is renamed One Grand Central Place
The building took the name One Grand Central Place in June 2009 and received an $85 million renovation. The work brought new windows, renovated elevators, refreshed air-conditioned public corridors and restrooms, and upgraded systems throughout. The Lincoln Building name had been in use since the tower was completed in 1930.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
Daniel Chester French's Lincoln model returns to the lobby
The three-foot bronze model of Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, a cast of a sketch for the Lincoln Memorial statue, left the building when it was renamed One Grand Central Place and went on loan to the Chesterwood estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It came back to the lobby on April 15, 2015.
“…the model was removed and loaned to Chesterwood estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was returned to the lobby on April 15, 2015.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
The building is the site of New York's first reported person-to-person COVID-19 spread
In March 2020, One Grand Central Place was where the first reported person-to-person spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in New York took place. The case came early in the pandemic.
Source: Wikipedia
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