Charles Scribner's Sons Building

The Charles Scribner's Sons Building is a building in Manhattan, New York City with the address 597 Fifth Avenue. It was built in 1912-1913, designed by Ernest Flagg in the Beaux- Arts style and served as the seat of the publisher Charles Scribner's Sons.

Among the many architectural details include four pillars, whose bases are decorated with busts of four famous printers: Benjamin Franklin, William Caxton, Johann Gutenberg and Aldus Manutius.

The construction started in 1981 in the National Register of Historic Places, as he filled the architectural and historical criteria. The owner reached in 1982 that it was deleted from the list.

In the 1980s, the Benetton Group bought the building. Declining business forced Scribner to move to a different New York county where the rent level was niederiger before it was acquired by Barnes & Noble. The building was then used by the bookstore Brentano 's, then a Benetton shop and now by Sephora, a cosmetics retailer. A & A Investment Co. acquired the Charles Scribner's Sons Building in 2006 and sold it in 2011 to Thor Equities.

The Scribner Building at 153-157 Fifth Ave. ( at 21st ) was also built in 1893 by Ernest Flagg.