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Singer Building
Singer Building
Coordinates: 40°42.58361704665177′N 74°0.6489372253417969′W / 40.709726951°N 74.01081562°W / 40.709726951; -74.01081562
Singer Building
Singer Building was the world’s tallest building from 1908 to 1909.[I] Preceded by Surpassed by Information Location Status Constructed Demolished New York City, USA Demolished 1908 1968 Philadelphia City Hall Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
Liberty Plaza). The tower floors were squares only 65 feet (20 m) on a side. It remained the second tallest building ever destroyed after Avala TV Tower in Serbia destroyed during NATO bombing, until the September 11, 2001, collapse of the nearby World Trade Center. It is still the tallest building ever lawfully demolished.
Gallery
September 1967 by Jack E. Boucher
September 1967 September 1967
Technical details Floor count 47
I^ Fully habitable, self-supported, from main entrance to highest structural or architectural top; see the list of tallest buildings in the world for other listings.
The Singer Building at Liberty Street and Broadway in Manhattan, New York,[1] was an office building completed in 1908 as the headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company. The building’s architect, Ernest Flagg, was a supporter of height limitations and restrictive zoning, and showed his solution to tall-building crowding with the Singer’s setback design. The 12-story base of the building filled an entire blockfront, while the tower above was very narrow. At 612 feet (187 m) above grade, the Singer Building was the tallest building in the world from its completion until the completion in 1909 of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower on Madison Avenue, again in Manhattan. The building was demolished in 1968 as it was claimed to be functionally obsolete, and in order to make way for the subdued U.S. Steel Building (currently known as One
The drawing of Singer Building.
The interior view of the Building.
The Singer Building with the Hudson River Terminal.
External links
• Old postcard view of the Singer Building on bc.edu • Singer Building in the Structurae database
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Records Preceded by Philadelphia City Hall Tallest building in the world 1908 – 1909 Tallest building in the United States 1908 – 1909 Preceded by Park Row Building Tallest building in New York City 1908 – 1909
Singer Building
Succeeded by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
Footnotes
[1] Another famous Singer Building, designed by architect Pavel Suzor, was built in 1902-1904 at Nevsky Prospekt in Saint-Petersburg for headquarters of the
Russian branch of the company. This modern style building (situated just opposite to the Kazan Cathedral) is officially recognized as an object of Russian historical-cultural heritage.
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