3D print the Fred F. French Building
A free, printable model of the Fred F. French Building, a stepped tower, and the packed Midtown blocks around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- Real height
- 130 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 35 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
130 m of the Fred F. French Building, 35 mm on your shelf
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Many setbacks
The tower steps in repeatedly as it rises, with a narrower tower at the top. Print friendly adapts these small ledges to the print scale; Full detail keeps every step on larger prints.
- Narrow and tall
Taller neighbors crowd it, and its upper tower is slim. Print slowly with good cooling, and use a layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm to keep the crown crisp.
- One piece with the ground
The Fred F. French Building is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Fred F. French Building takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Fred F. French Building
The skyscraper at 551 Fifth Avenue, called the Fred F. French Building, occupies the northeast corner where Fifth Avenue meets 45th Street in Midtown Manhattan. H. Douglas Ives designed it in partnership with T. Markoe Robertson and John Sloan of Sloan & Robertson, and it was erected in 1927. It was commissioned for Fred F. French, who owned the firm that bears his name, and carries that name. The 38-story building rises 426 feet (130 m) and was the tallest on Fifth Avenue when it was finished.
Its Art Deco design has Middle Eastern influences. Several setbacks, which the 1916 Zoning Resolution required, step the tower back on all sides. The facade is mostly brick with limestone trim, and two bronze entrances and mythological figures decorate the base. The top holds a tower decorated with bas-reliefs in a Mesopotamian manner, along with faience tiles, and multicolored ornamental friezes run across the facade. The same motifs continue in the lobby, which has a polychrome vaulted ceiling.
The building became a New York City designated landmark, with its interior, in 1986. It was restored by the 1990s and the Building Owners and Managers Association then named it Historic Building of the Year for 1994/1995. Listing on the National Register of Historic Places followed in 2004.
About this model
The Fred F. French Building is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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