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The building is assigned its own ZIP Code, 10152 it was one of 41 buildings in Manhattan that had their own ZIP Codes as of 2019. The building was never officially named for its original anchor tenant, Canadian conglomerate Seagram, and is legally known only by its address. The Seagram Building is at 375 Park Avenue, on the east side of the avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. In 1989, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Seagram Building's exterior, lobby, and The Four Seasons Restaurant as official city landmarks.
Within New York City, the Seagram Building helped influence the 1961 Zoning Resolution, a zoning ordinance that allowed developers to construct additional floor area in exchange for including plazas outside their buildings. Described in The New York Times as one of "New York's most copied buildings", the Seagram Building has inspired the designs of other structures around the world. Upon opening, the Seagram Building was widely praised for its architecture. TIAA sold the building in 2000 to Aby Rosen's RFR Holding LLC, which has continued to operate the structure. The Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) purchased the building in 1979, and it remained Seagram's headquarters until 2001. The building's construction began in late 1955 and finished in 1958, although the official certificate of occupancy was not granted until 1959. After Lambert objected to Pereira & Luckman's original design, Mies was selected as the architect that November. Seagram revealed plans for the building in July 1954, when it announced construction of its headquarters on the up-and-coming commercial strip of Park Avenue. The upper stories contain office spaces of modular construction. The lowest stories originally contained the Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants, which were replaced respectively by the Grill and Pool restaurant and the Lobster Club. Behind the plaza is a tall elevator lobby with a similar design to the plaza. The pink granite plaza facing Park Avenue contains two fountains.
A glass curtain wall with vertical mullions of bronze and horizontal spandrels made of Muntz metal form the building's exterior. Phyllis Lambert, daughter of Seagram CEO Samuel Bronfman, heavily influenced the Seagram Building's design, an example of the functionalist aesthetic and a prominent instance of corporate modern architecture. The International Style building with a public plaza, completed in 1958, initially served as the headquarters of the Seagram Company, a Canadian distiller. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe along with Philip Johnson, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Robert Allan Jacobs, the tower is 515 feet (157 m) tall with 38 stories. The Seagram Building is a skyscraper at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd and 53rd Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
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