The Fuller Building is a skyscraper at 57th Street and Madison Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

The 40-story building is designed in the Art Deco style and contains numerous setbacks as mandated by the 1916 Zoning Resolution.

The interior has richly decorated vestibules and lobby featuring marble walls, bronze detailing, and mosaic floors.

The Fuller Building was constructed as part of the artistic hub that occupied East 57th Street during the early 20th century.

The Fuller Building is in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, on the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and 57th Street.

[1] Before the Fuller Building was developed, the site was occupied by the Madison Avenue Dutch Reformed Church,[3] constructed in 1870.

[4] In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, East 57th Street largely contained homes and structures built for the arts.

[17] Christopher Gray wrote in The New York Times in 1995 that the building was "a jazz-age testament to the emerging commercial chic of 57th Street".

[15] The AIA Guide to New York City called it "the Brooks Brothers of Art Deco: black, gray and white.

[15] The overall form was intended to be visualized in several vertical sections: a large base, a mass with setbacks, a narrow tower, and a crown.

[19][20] The base was intended for stores and galleries; the set-back midsection was for art dealers; and the narrow tower was for businesses.

[15] The main entrance portal is in the fourth bay from west on 57th Street; it is three stories high and is flanked by granite-and-stone pilasters.

The second and third floors of the main entrance portal contain a grid of square windows framed by metal mullions.

[23] The ground level generally contains storefronts separated by vertical granite piers, which extend through the second to sixth floors.

[22][28] The fifth and sixth floors are separated horizontally by a granite band with a Greek key motif made of limestone.

[38] The floor of the main lobby consists of gray, black, white, and tan mosaic tiles with chevron-patterned borders and geometric patterns.

[3][20] The New York Times said the base was designed to provide "salon shop space",[3] and Walker and Gillette called it "the first high-class multiple-purpose skyscraper" in the city.

[55][56] At the roof, Walker and Gillette designed an eleven-room penthouse apartment for J. H. Carpenter, president of the Fuller Construction Company at the time of the building's completion.

[60][61] Shortly after Fuller's death, Black constructed what is now the Flatiron Building at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street for the company's headquarters.

The board of GAR Realty consisted of officers from the National City Bank of New York and the Fuller Company, which were to occupy the building.

[4][69] The Fuller Company labeled both entrances of its new building prominently, likely in an attempt to prevent the structure from being mislabeled like its predecessor had been.

[73] Storefront and basement space was also leased to Sally Gowns Inc. and McGibben & Co., both clothing companies,[74] and Edward Garratt Inc., furniture dealer.

led by Miami-based realtor Kenneth S. Keyes, bought the building on behalf of "out-of-town" investors in January 1949.

[88] Four months later, a syndicate headed by Irving Brodsky and Richard Gittlin bought a 99-year leasehold for the land from the Fuller Building Corporation.

[89] Leases on 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2), about half of the office space, were set to expire in 1962, and it was renting at a rate below the average for the neighborhood.

As a result, the owners decided to renovate the building's mechanical features such as acoustical ceilings, fluorescent lighting, and air conditioning.

[90] In 1968, Brodsky signed a contract to purchase the Fuller Building on behalf of the Fred F. French Company, which paid cash to cover the $4.2 million mortgage.

Not only was 57th Street still an artistic hub, but also, building management was willing to accommodate each gallery's specific needs, such as large doorways, minimal window space, and heavy floor slabs.

By then, the Fuller Building had been overshadowed by the construction of the much taller Four Seasons Hotel on the adjacent lot, which had been completed in 1993.

[101] By the end of 2021, the building was 81 percent occupied, and its tenants included fashion firms such as Bottega Veneta and Tom Ford.