How was Madison Square Garden designed?

Madison and 26th had been the site of a depot for the New York and Harlem Railroad and Barnum's Hippodrome before being occupied by the first and second Madison Square Gardens. read more

Madison Square Garden (1879) - Wikipedia for more. The building of Madison Square Garden was so controversial for its destruction of the beaux-arts Penn Station building that it is credited for launching the architectural preservation movement in NY City (and to other cities). read more

Madison Square Garden II was unsuccessful like the first Garden, and the New York Life Insurance Company, which held the mortgage on it, decided to tear it down in 1925 to make way for a new headquarters building, which would become the landmark Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Building. read more

Fifth and Madison Avenues 26th and 27th Streets : date. 1890 (demolished in 1925) style. Renaissance Revival (tower design was based on the Moorish Giralda Tower in Spain). construction. Stone: type. Venue . images notes. White designed the second of four successive buildings with the name Madison Square Garden, all built in the same place as the first. read more