The building where Mandl students have been entering and studying to begin their careers in healthcare for decades, 254 W 54, is one of the most culturally famous buildings in NYC. It's true! This address has been home to opera houses, CBS TV and the Johnny Carson Show, the infamous Studio 54, Roundabout Theatre Company, and of course Mandl School.

254 West 54th Street has a narrow office section fronting 54th Street, clad in buff-colored brick above a 3-story limestone base. It opened as the Gallo Opera House and transformed into the New Yorker Theatre in 1930. CBS purchased the space in 1942 and made it the home of renowned television shows like "The Johnny Carson Show." CBS sold the space in the late 1970s, and the new owners transformed the space into the most legendary nightclub of the disco-era, Studio 54.

The ground floor, painted black, has three entrances - the larger, center one has four glass doors below a large marquee, and accesses the Roundabout Theater Company at Studio 54. The west entrance is to the Mandl School, and has glass-and-metal double-doors and sidelights set in a steel frame, below a small, angled, blue canvas canopy. The east entrance has three glass door next to a red-painted wooden door that accesses Feinstein's 54 Below restaurant and cabaret. The base is capped by a stone cornice with large modillions and four bracketed forms at the main piers, each with a carved statue of muse figures.

The upper floors have four single-windows in the middle, and end bays of double-windows with black iron mullions. Between the 4th & 5th floors the brick spandrels have stone ribs, and the end piers have vertical stone panels, while the middle two piers have shallow, arched niches. On the floors above the windows have stone sills and brick lintels. The end bays set back above the 11th floor, with the middle bays setting back above the 13th.

The rear facade on 53rd Street is clad in beige brick. The ground floor has a freight entrance at the east end, and poster boxes to the left. The 2nd-4th floors have four bays of single-windows, and a smaller windows inserted between the western two. They have brick sills, and at the 2nd floor the four main bays have brick round-arches on top. A large, angled sign is attached to the upper floors.

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