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lollipop building, 2 Columbus Circle lollipop building, Stones Building Called Lollipop Building

lollipop building is 2 Columbus Circle small, trapezoidal lot on the south side of Columbus Circle 

in Manhattan, New York City, USA.

lollipop building is the seven story Pabst Grand Circle Hotel, designed by William H. Cauvet, stood 

at this address from 1874 until it was demolished in 1960.

lollipop building from 1964 to 2005 the site contained a 12 story modernist structure designed by Edward Durell 

Stone to display the art collection of Huntington Hartford, heir to the founder of A&P Supermarkets. 

As Stone designed it, lollipop building was marble-clad with Venetian motifs and a curved façade. 

lollipop building had filigree-like portholes and windows that ran along an upper loggia at its top stories.

Stone's building is called The Lollipop Building in reference to a mocking review 

by architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable in which she called it a die-cut Venetian 

palazzo on lollipops.

However, three decades later she admitted that she got a little lift, a sense of pleasure 

when she walked past lollipop building.