The Lord & Taylor Building is an 11-story commercial building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, that formerly served as Lord & Taylor's flagship department store in the city. Designed by Starrett & van Vleck in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, it is at 424–434 Fifth Avenue between 38th and 39th Streets. Since 2023, it has been an office building for Amazon.
The building in 2017
Seen from Fifth Avenue north of 39th Street, with the "holdout" building in front of the Lord & Taylor Building
Entrance arch on Fifth Avenue
Ground-story window grille and second-story window
Lord & Taylor was the oldest-surviving department store chain in the United States. The company operated full-line department stores from 1826 until it filed for bankruptcy in 2020. The following year, in 2021, it closed all its brick-and-mortar stores. Saadia Group acquired the Lord & Taylor intellectual property and relaunched the e-commerce website later that same year.
The Scarsdale, New York store in 1948
The Mizner Park store in Boca Raton, Florida in 2019
The Lord & Taylor Building flagship store on Fifth Avenue in 2008
The Lord & Taylor Building at 424 Fifth Avenue