Chase Building

Chase Manhattan Gordon Bunshaft Building
(Former) Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company Building

510 Fifth Ave.
Northwest Corner of 43rd Street
Built: 1954
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Developer: The Manufacturers Trust Company

At the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street stands the former Manufacturers Trust Co. branch, now JPMorgan Chase, from 1954. Designed by Gordon Bunshaft, it was Fifth Avenue's first glass edifice.

Chief designer of the building was Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, who is also responsible for the famous Lever House on Park Avenue. 

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Clear structural composition and carefully designed details characterize this pristine modernist building. The unobstructed view of the vault door and banking rooms from Fifth Avenue indicated a new trend in bank design at the time of the project's completion in 1954. The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1997.

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