Editing Fuller Building (section)

====Shops, galleries, and offices====
The lowest six stories were reserved for shops or art galleries.<ref name="nyt19281202" /><ref name="Robins p. 124" /> ''The New York Times'' said the base was designed to provide "salon shop space",<ref name="nyt19281202" /> and Walker and Gillette called it "the first high-class multiple-purpose skyscraper" in the city.<ref name="Robins p. 124" /> Tenants could occupy ground-level storefronts on 57th Street or Madison Avenue, as well as space on the second through sixth floors above their respective storefronts.<ref name="nyt19281202" /><ref name="nyht19281202" /><ref name="NYCL p. 5" /><ref name="Robins p. 124" /> Each space could be served by its own elevator and circular stair.<ref name="NY1930" /><ref name="NYCL pp. 4-5">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|1986|ps=.|pp=4–5}}</ref> The arrangement of vertical storefronts and the lobby's design were intended to "give the greatest attraction to the exteriors of the shops", according to Douglas Grant Scott of the [[United States Realty and Construction Company]], the Fuller Company's parent corporation.<ref>{{Cite news|date=December 22, 1929|title=Vertical Shops; Stores in Fuller Building Indicate Modern Trend.|language=en-US|page=RE2|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/12/22/92045527.pdf|access-date=April 9, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Rents for the stores was initially calculated by averaging the rates for the first through sixth floors; in typical buildings, space on higher floors was subjected to lower rates than space on lower floors.<ref>{{cite news|date=January 20, 1929|title=Square Foot Basis to Give Wav to Front Foot Values: Will Be Used Figuring Rents for Six-Story Stores in 57th Street|page=D11|work=New York Herald Tribune|id={{ProQuest|1111945251}}}}</ref>

In the years after its opening, many galleries were opened on the storefronts in the lowest six floors. The Fuller Building became "one of Manhattan's most prestigious gallery addresses", as ''The New York Times'' described it.<ref name="nyt19920904">{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=September 4, 1992|title=The Art Market|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/04/arts/the-art-market.html|access-date=April 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 10, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410003018/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/04/arts/the-art-market.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The gallery tenants over the years have included the [[Nailya Alexander Gallery]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_mNLAQAAIAAJ|title=Photograph|publisher=Photography|year=2010|page=41|access-date=May 3, 2021|archive-date=September 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905203901/https://books.google.com/books?id=_mNLAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Andrew Crispo]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=June 11, 1993|title=The Art Market|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/movies/the-art-market.html|access-date=April 11, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411174149/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/11/movies/the-art-market.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Scher 2016">{{cite web|last=Scher|first=Robin|date=July 19, 2016|title='Round 57th Street: New York's First Gallery District Continues (for Now) to Weather Endless Changes in the Art World|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/round-57th-street-new-yorks-first-gallery-district-continues-for-now-to-weather-endless-changes-in-the-art-world-6685/|access-date=April 11, 2021|website=ARTnews.com|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411174157/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/round-57th-street-new-yorks-first-gallery-district-continues-for-now-to-weather-endless-changes-in-the-art-world-6685/|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Charles Egan Gallery]],<ref name="Scher 2016" /> [[André Emmerich]],<ref name="nyt19920904" /><ref name="Scher 2016" /> [[Hammer Galleries]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 16, 1951|title=Art Dealers Expanding: Hammer Galleries Lease Three Floors in 51 East 57th St.|language=en-US|page=50|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/01/16/84831018.pdf|access-date=April 10, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[Howard Greenberg Gallery]], [[Marlborough Fine Art|Marlborough-Gerson]],<ref name="nyt19631020" /> [[Pierre Matisse]],<ref name="nyt19311209" /> the [[Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery]],<ref>{{cite web|date=October 29, 1998|title=John Winship|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1032627|access-date=April 11, 2021|publisher=NPR|archive-date=April 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411174149/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1032627|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Zabriskie Gallery]].<ref name="Scher 2016" /> Other gallery occupants have included the Kent Fine Art Gallery, [[Jan Krugier]], [[David McKee]], [[Robert Miller (art dealer)|Robert Miller]], the [[Tibor de Nagy Gallery]], and Joan Washburn.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Russell|first=John|date=April 24, 1988|title=Three Worlds of 57th Street; the World of Art|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url-access=limited|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/24/magazine/three-worlds-of-57th-street-the-world-of-art.html|access-date=April 11, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128060606/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/24/magazine/three-worlds-of-57th-street-the-world-of-art.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The 7th to 15th stories were designed as spaces for interior decorators and art dealers to sell merchandise. The 16th to 40th stories were designed as offices.<ref name="nyt19281202" /><ref name="NYCL p. 5" /> The Fuller offices on the 16th through 19th stories were trimmed extensively in teakwood and had private elevator service.<ref name="nyt19290908">{{Cite news|date=September 8, 1929|title=Fuller Offices Moved: Company to Occupy Four Floors in New Building.|language=en-US|page=RE6|work=The New York Times|url-access=subscription|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1929/09/08/91932038.pdf|access-date=April 9, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="nyht19290908">{{cite news|date=September 8, 1929|title=Fuller Co. Moves North|page=D4|work=New York Herald Tribune|id={{ProQuest|1112001934}}}}</ref> At the roof, Walker and Gillette designed an eleven-room penthouse apartment for [[J. H. Carpenter]], president of the Fuller Construction Company at the time of the building's completion.<ref name="nyt19281202" /> The offices were built with cement floors, white plaster walls, and steel-and-glass partitions, while the corridors had marble and terrazzo floors.<ref name="AF 1930-06" />