Metropolitan Life North Building
| Metropolitan Life North Building | |
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| General information | |
| Location | 11-25 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10010 |
| Coordinates | 40°44′29.6″N 73°59′11.6″W / 40.741556°N 73.986556°WCoordinates: 40°44′29.6″N 73°59′11.6″W / 40.741556°N 73.986556°W |
| Construction started | 1928 |
| Completed | 1950 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 137.5 m (451 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 30 |
The Metropolitan Life North Building, now known as Eleven Madison, is a 30-story art deco skyscraper on Madison Square Park in Manhattan, New York City, at 11-25 Madison Avenue. The building is bordered by East 24th Street, Madison Avenue, East 25th Street and Park Avenue South, and is connected by an elevated walkway to the Met Life Tower just south of it. The North Building was built on the site of Richard Upjohn's original Madison Square Presbyterian Church. The second church, designed by Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White was built in 1906, across 24th street on land conveyed by Metropolitan Life. As part of the Metropolitan Life Home Office Complex, the North Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 19, 1996.
The Madison Square Presbyterian Church, designed by Richard M. Upjohn in the Gothic Revival architectural style, was located on Madison Square Park at the southeast corner of East 24th Street and Madison Avenue, and was completed in 1854. The building was acquired by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to make way for the 48-story Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower. In exchange, the church received a 75' by 150' plot of land across 24th Street that became the site for Stanford White's Madison Square Presbyterian Church, sometimes called the "Parkhurst Church" after Reverend Charles Henry Parkhurst. Upjohn's building was demolished in 1909.
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