The Fuller Building was also the original name of the Flatiron Building

Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building, as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and the only skyscraper...

The Fuller Building is a tower block in Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...

 on the northeast corner at 41-45 East 57th Street and Madison Avenue.

Construction

The Fuller was built for the Fuller Construction Company in 1929 after they moved from the Flatiron Building

Flatiron Building

The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building, as it was originally called, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902 it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and the only skyscraper...

. In tune with the times, the architects Walker & Gillette

Walker & Gillette

Walker & Gillette was an architectural firm based in New York City, the partnership of A. Stewart Walker and Leon N. Gillette , active from 1906 through 1945.- Biography :...

 included many art deco

Art Deco

Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the World War II era. The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior design, industrial design, fashion and...

 features in the interior and exterior decoration of the building. As Christopher Gray wrote in The New York Times, "It was built in 1929 as a jazz-age testament to the emerging commercial chic of 57th Street." As contractors, Fuller Construction went on to erect the United Nations complex, Lever House and the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington.

Art galleries

The Fuller Building is known for housing a number of New York's most important galleries including the André Emmerich

André Emmerich

André Emmerich was an influential German born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and Al Held....

 Gallery (closed), the Robert Miller

Robert Miller (art dealer)

Robert Miller was an American art dealer in New York City whose contemporary gallery, located first on 5th Avenue, later in the Fuller Building on East 57th Street, and finally on 26th Street in Chelsea is a leading gallery for the works of Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Robert...

 Gallery (moved), the Charles Egan Gallery

Charles Egan Gallery

The Charles Egan Gallery opened at 63 East 57th Street in about 1945, when Charles Egan was in his mid-30's. Egan's artists helped him fix up the gallery: "Isamu Noguchi did the lighting... Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline painted the walls."...

 (closed), the David McKee Gallery (moved), David Findlay Jr. Gallery, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery

Zabriskie Gallery

-Early years:Virginia Zabriskie took over the art gallery with a one-dollar down payment. It had been the Korman Gallery, a cooperative that included the painters Pat Adams and Clinton Hill .-Zabriskie Gallery, France:...

, Andrew Crispo Gallery (closed), and the pioneering Pierre Matisse

Pierre Matisse

Pierre Matisse was an art dealer active in New York City. He was the youngest child of French painter Henri Matisse.-Background and early years:...

Gallery (closed), amongst others. Although several galleries have either moved or closed, many newer ones, such as the Jason McCoy Gallery (11th floor), and the Wendt Gallery have taken their place.