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Series 7. Other Uris Properties, 1927-1996, undated
Subseries 7.1. One University Place, 1947-1956 Subseries 7.2. Two Sutton Place South, 1948, undated Subseries 7.3. 45 East 49th Street, 1952-1996, undated Subseries 7.4. 48 East 50th Street, 1948-1961 Subseries 7.5. 49 East 49th Street, 1952-1954 Subseries 7.6. 485 Lexington Avenue, 1951-1973, undated Subseries 7.7. 488 Madison Avenue, 1948-1967, undated Subseries 7.8. 505 Park Avenue, 1948 Subseries 7.9. 575 Madison Avenue, 1949-1950, undated Subseries 7.10. 750 Third Avenue, 1956-1974 Subseries 7.11. 880 Fifth Avenue, 1947-1957, undated Subseries 7.12. Copland Garage, 1950-1979 Subseries 7.13. Court Square Building, 1930-1952 Subseries 7.14. The Fairgrounds Shopping Center, Ithaca, New York, 1964-1979, undated Subseries 7.15. Toms River Properties, N.J., 1953-1976, undated Subseries 7.16. Select Register of Apartment House Plans, circa 1928 |
Series 6. 300 Park Avenue, 1942-1999About 70,900 items (101.5 linear feet and 38 rolls)This series contains administrative records, correspondence, financial records, construction files, and drawings. The documents generated by the four successive corporate entities managing the commercial property represent the initial project planning stages through the next forty years of operation. Park Avenue Offices, Inc. was the first administrative corporation, followed by Colcorn Company, Uris Holding Company, and finally 300 Park Avenue, LLC. Within the administrative records, there are tenant files, monthly property statements, subject files, mortgage and loan records, and employee related files for the property. Correspondence details the deal arranged to purchase the property, construction of the office building, business activities concerning to 300 Park Avenue, and everyday operations at the premises. In the financial records, there are general files, financial statements, paid bills, and bank account materials about fiscal matters. Both the construction records and drawings illustrate the building's design by Emery Roth & Sons and modification for tenants. Arranged by type Built on part of the site of Columbia University's campus from 1857-1897, the twenty-five-story office building is located on the western side of Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets. The property was obtained in 1951 through an exchange with Webb & Knapp, the Court Square Building at 2 Lafayette Street for the 300 Park Avenue residential building and two adjoining properties. They also leased the air rights from New York Central (Railroad) System for this structure. After two years of negotiations, the tenants agreed to leave the seventeen-story apartment house and construction began with Emery Roth & Sons serving as architects. Completed in 1955, it is often referred to as the Colgate-Palmolive Building after one of its primary tenants. Other prominent firms leasing space were Barclays Bank of New York (formerly Chemical Corn Exchange Bank), Cerro Corporation, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, Kaiser Services (formerly Henry J. Kaiser Company), Phelps Dodge Corporation, Crane Co., Galow Restaurant, Inc. (formerly Chandler's Restaurant, Inc.), and West Merchant Bank Ltd. When most of the Uris buildings were incorporated in 1960, this building remained in under the family's private ownership. It was purchased in 1999 by Tishman Speyer Properties from the Uris estate and subsequently renovated. |