Madison Square Garden Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Previous Gardens=== [[Madison Square and Madison Square Park|Madison Square]] is formed by the intersection of [[Fifth Avenue|5th Avenue]] and [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]] at [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd Street]] in Manhattan. It was named after [[James Madison]], fourth [[President of the United States]].<ref>Mendelsohn, Joyce. "Madison Square" in {{cite enc-nyc}}, p. 711β712</ref> Two venues called Madison Square Garden were located just northeast of the square, [[Madison Square Garden (1879)|the original Garden]] from 1879 to 1890, and [[Madison Square Garden (1890)|the second Garden]] from 1890 to 1925. The first, leased to [[P. T. Barnum]],<ref name=ballp /> was demolished in 1890 because of a leaky roof and dangerous balconies that had collapsed, resulting in deaths. The second was designed by noted architect [[Stanford White]]. The new building was built by a syndicate that included [[J. P. Morgan]], [[Andrew Carnegie]], [[P. T. Barnum]],<ref name=fednyc>{{cite fednyc}}, pp. 330β333</ref> [[Darius Ogden Mills|Darius Mills]], [[James Stillman]] and [[William Waldorf Astor|W. W. Astor]]. White gave them a [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] structure with a [[Moors|Moorish]] feel, including a minaret-like tower modeled after [[Giralda]], the bell tower of the [[Seville Cathedral|Cathedral of Seville]],<ref name=fednyc /> soaring 32 stories, the city's second-tallest building at the time{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}} and dominating [[Madison Square and Madison Square Park|Madison Square Park]]. It was {{convert|200|ft|m}} by {{convert|485|ft|m}}, and the main hall, which was the largest in the world, measured {{convert|200|ft|m}} by {{convert|350|ft|m}} with permanent seating for 8,000 people and floor space for thousands more. It had a 1,200-seat theater, a concert hall with a capacity of 1,500, the largest restaurant in the city, and a roof garden cabaret.<ref name=ballp>{{cite web|url=http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/NewYorkRangers/2ndoldindex.htm|title=Madison Square Garden/The Paramount}}</ref> The building cost $3 million.<ref name=ballp /> Madison Square Garden II was unsuccessful like the first Garden,<ref>Burrows, Edwin G. and Wallace, Mike, ''Gotham: A History of New York to 1989''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. {{ISBN|0-19-511634-8}}</ref> 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]]. A [[Madison Square Garden (1925)|third Madison Square Garden]] opened in a new location, on [[Eighth Avenue (Manhattan)|8th Avenue]] between [[List of numbered streets in Manhattan|49th]] and [[50th Street (Manhattan)|50th Streets]], from 1925 to 1968. Groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9, 1925.<ref name=ballp2>[http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/NewYorkRangers/3rdoldindex.htm "Madison Square Garden III"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719002323/http://hockey.ballparks.com/NHL/NewYorkRangers/3rdoldindex.htm |date=July 19, 2017 }} on Ballparks.com</ref> Designed by the noted theater architect [[Thomas W. Lamb]], it was built at the cost of $4.75 million in 249 days by boxing promoter [[Tex Rickard]];<ref name=ballp /> the arena was dubbed "The House That Tex Built."<ref>Schumach, Murray (February 14, 1948).[https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/14/archives/next-and-last-attraction-at-old-madison-square-garden-to-be.html Next and Last Attraction at Old Madison Square Garden to Be Wreckers' Ball] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511001312/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/02/14/archives/next-and-last-attraction-at-old-madison-square-garden-to-be.html |date=May 11, 2022 }}, ''The New York Times''</ref> The arena was {{convert|200|ft|m}} by {{convert|375|ft|m}}, with seating on three levels, and a maximum capacity of 18,496 spectators for boxing.<ref name=ballp /> Demolition commenced in 1968 after the opening of the current Garden,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eisenband |first1=Jeffrey |title=Remembering The 1948 Madison Square Garden All-Star Game With Marv Albert |url=http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/throwback/201502/1968-nba-all-star-game-marv-albert-madison-square-garden-new-york-hal-greer |publisher=ThePostGame |access-date=July 5, 2015}}</ref> and was completed in early 1969. 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