King's Views of New York - XI

Week 11 of King's Views of New York, with some real stunners in this set. As always, click on the "See Large" link beneath each photo to see it in much greater detail.




(See Large) - Photo: American Studio, NYC, NY (1916)
Telephone And Telegraph Building - at 195 Broadway, home of the Western Electric Co., the American Telephone and Telegraph and affiliated companies, fronting on Broadway, Dey and Fulton Streets, 27 stories; area of site 24,300 sq. ft.; height of main building 365 ft.; Fulton Street wing, including tower 442 ft.; foundation 71 feet deep; gross floor area approximately 600,000 ft., net rentable 375,000 ft.; 14 express elevators, 6 local and one to tower; the greatest statue of "Electricity," modelled by Miss Evelyn Beatrice Longman, was the successful design in a competition in which eight well-known sculptors participated; William Wells Bosworth, Architect; Marc Eidlitz & Son, General Contractor. In this photo (L to R): St. Paul's Building, Park Row, Singer Tower, Telephone & Telegraph Building, St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway, Astor House Building.



(See Large) - Photo: F. W. Woolworth (Date N/A)
Woolworth Building - Broadway, Barclay St. to Park Pl.; tallest building in the world, 55 stories, 792 ft. high; begun 1910, completed April, 1913; plot, 152 X 197 ft., cost $4,500,000; foundations, with caissons 19 ft. in diameter sunk to bedrock 110 to 130 ft. below sidewalk, cost $1,000,000; building, about $8,000,000; main building 29 stories; tower, 86 X 84 ft., 36 stories above main building; light on top visible 96 miles at sea; stores and arcade on ground floor; Irving National Exchange Bank on first floor; built by F.W. Woolworth.


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Municipal Building - Park Row and Centre Street, facing City Hall Park; $20,400,000 offices for city departments, largest structure of sort in the world, housing 6,000 city employees; resting on 116 pneumatic caissons, sunk to bedrock in some places 260 ft. below the street and 239 ft. below water level; the most difficult foundations ever constructed, costing $2,000,000; building 381 X 168 X 158 ft. with 600,000 sq. ft. floor space; 34 stories (15 in tower); 580 ft. high, including 24 ft. figure of Civic Fame; begun 1908, occupied 1914, six-track subway station in basement.


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Civic Centre - City Hall Park, as it will be when it's restoration is made possible by removal of Federal Building, County CFourt House and City Court, preserving the classic City Hall, erected over a hundred years ago, in the setting intended for the seat of the municipal government, with the city departments in the Municipal Building and Hall of Records, the new County Court House to the north along Centre Street, which leads to the City Prison (Tombs), Criminal Courts, Public Health Building and Police Headquarters. Close to the new Court House it is proposed to erect a new Federal Building to provide quarters for the United States Courts. The unsightly sheet iron shed at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge is to be replaced by an ornamental terminal so arranged as to practically abolish the "bridge crush" of the rush hours.


...to be continued.