DuMont Building

DuMont Building
DuMont Building
General information
Location 515 Madison Avenue, New York City
Coordinates 40°45′36″N 73°58′26″W / 40.759897°N 73.973935°W / 40.759897; -73.973935Coordinates: 40°45′36″N 73°58′26″W / 40.759897°N 73.973935°W / 40.759897; -73.973935
Completed 1931
Height
Top floor 162 m (531 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 42[1]
Floor area 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2)
Design and construction
Owner Newmark & Co.
Management Newmark & Co.
Architect J.E.R Carpenter
Developer John H. Carpenter

The DuMont Building (also known as 515 Madison Avenue) is a 532 foot (162 m) high building at 53rd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City.[1]

The building was built in art deco style by John H. Carpenter and designed by his brother, architect J.E.R. Carpenter who also designed Lincoln Tower as well as nearly 125 buildings along Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue.[2][3][4]

One of the building's most distinctive features is a broadcasting antenna that traces back to the building's role in the first television broadcasts of WNYW in 1938.

In 1938, Allen B. DuMont began broadcasting experimental television W2XWV from the building. In 1944, the station became WABD (named for his initials). The station was one of the few that continued to broadcast through World War II. The broadcast of news about the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in 1945 was considered the beginning of the DuMont Television Network. After the war, the network/station moved to bigger studios - first at the old Wanamaker's store at Ninth and Broadway in Greenwich Village,[5] then the Adelphi Theatre, the Ambassador Theatre, and in 1954 to the Jacob Ruppert Central Opera House at 205 East 67th and which today is the Fox Television Center.

In 1947, the building was the site of a protest by 700 picketers demanding that the United States end diplomatic relations with Spain as a protest against the government of Francisco Franco at the site of the Spanish consulate, located in the building.[6]

In 1962, the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) building was sold to Newmark & Co. which still owns and manages it.[7]

In 1977, WKCR-FM, the radio station of Columbia University, became the first radio (or television) station to transmit from the antenna atop the World Trade Center, having previously broadcast from an antenna atop the DuMont Building for 19 years, until the construction of other surrounding skyscrapers started interfering with the station's signal.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Du Mont Building, Emporis. Accessed September 27, 2008.
  2. ^ http://www.thecityreview.com/carpcand.html
  3. ^ Publishers Lease Floor in Madison Avenue Building - New York Times - October 18, 1931
  4. ^ http://www.emporis.com/en/cd/cm?id=jecoronelcarpenter-newyorkcity-ny-usa
  5. ^ Bergmann, Ted and Skutch, Ira (2002) The DuMont Television Network: What Happened? 21-22. Scarecrow Press: Lanham, Maryland. ISBN 0-8108-4270-X.
  6. ^ Staff. "ANTI-FRANCO DEMONSTRATION STAGED HERE YESTERDAY", The New York Times, March 3, 1946. Accessed September 27, 2008.
  7. ^ Staff. "515 Madison Leasehold Sold", The New York Times, July 20, 1962.
  8. ^ Fraser, C. Gerald. "WKCR Will Be the First Station To Transmit From Trade Center", The New York Times, July 30, 1977. Accessed September 27, 2008.

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