945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House was being renovated. 945 Madison Avenue will next become headquarters to the international auction house Sotheby's.
The building in 2019, as the Met Breuer
Window onto Madison Avenue
Model of the Sumerian ziggurat Etemenanki, based on the Tower of Babel stele
Architectural plan for the exterior, 1963
The Upper East Side, sometimes abbreviated UES, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, bounded approximately by 96th Street to the north, the East River to the east, 59th Street to the south, and Central Park and Fifth Avenue to the west. The area incorporates several smaller neighborhoods, including Lenox Hill, Carnegie Hill, and Yorkville. Once known as the Silk Stocking District, it has long been the most affluent neighborhood in New York City.
East 69th Street between Park and Madison Avenues in the Upper East Side Historic District
The Metropolitan Museum Historic District, designed in 1977
Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the Mayor of New York City and the city's last remaining East River villa
45 East 66th Street, a designated New York City landmark, as seen from Madison Avenue
