Park Row Building
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| Basic data | |
| Place: |
New York , United States
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| Construction time : | 1896-1899 |
| Opening: | 1899 |
| Status : | Built |
| Architect : | Robert Henderson Robertson |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 119 m |
| Height to the top: | 119 m |
| Height to the roof: | 119 m |
| Rank (height) : | - |
| Floors : | 30th |
The Park Row Building is a 1899 building constructed at City Hall Park in the district of Lower Manhattan in New York . The high-rise building has a height of 119 meters (391 feet) and 30 floors. The architect was Robert Henderson Robertson . From 1899 to 1908 it was the tallest skyscraper in the world and is the oldest record holder still in existence. It was replaced in 1908 by the now defunct Singer Building as the tallest building in the world and almost also by a planned construction on 33rd Street, which was dropped again in 1901.
history
The Park Row Building is considered to be one of the first real skyscrapers in New York. The building opened in 1899 after 2 years and 9 months of construction. It joined the other new buildings in " Newspaper Row ", the then center of the newspaper industry in New York. The construction company was Park Row Construction Company, a syndicate whose legal advisor William Mills Ivins bought the building site beforehand and then transferred it to the company, which is why the building is partly known as Ivins Syndicate Building.
gallery
Park Row Building, 1899
One of the two towers
Photo from 1912
View from the street (Park Row Building on the left)
See also
Web links
- Website
- Park Row Building Designation Report (PDF; 1.8 MB) (June 15, 1999 )
| before | Tallest skyscraper in the world | after that |
| Manhattan Life Insurance Building (?) | 119 m 1899-1908 |
Singer Building |
Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 40.9 " N , 74 ° 0 ′ 28" W.