Identifier: historyofrealest00durs (find matches)
Title: A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913-, former owner. NNC Real Estate Record Association Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), former owner. NNC
Subjects: Real estate business Building Architecture
Publisher: New York : Record and guide
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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New York Build-ing Department by Messrs. J. C. Cady & Co., architects, for a ten-story skeleton structure, to be erected on a lot 24 feet 2 inches frontby 74 feet 4 inches deep, Xo. 25 Pine street, for the Lancashire In-surance Co. The building was commenced in October, 1889, a,idfinished in Alay, i8i;o. In this building steel Z-bar colunms wereused. Plans for the third skeleton building erected in New York citywere filed in the Ikiilding Department January 2, 1890, by Messrs.Youngs and Cable, architects. This buildmg was completed in May,1891. It is known as the Columl)ia building, Xo. 2() Umadway,n. w. corner of )\Iorris street; is twelve stories in height and has afrontage of 29 feet 9 inches on Broadway. The columns are of steel,and the curtain walls are twelve inches in thickness. Up to thetime of its completion this building was the most prominent andsuccessful of the skeleton structures erected in Xew York. Thedrawings for the steel skeleton were prepared by Mr. P. Minturn
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BUILDIXG AXD ARCHITECTURE IX XEIV YORK. 473 Smith, the President of the Union Iron \\orks, and it was chieflythrongh his instrumentaHty in showing its safety and economy offloor space that the owner of the Cohimbia lot was induced to adoptthe skeleton construction. Other skeleton buildings, of greater area and greater height fol-lowed in rapid succession in Xew York, among which may be men-tioned the (Manhattan Life, seventeen stories, with a height of 242feet to the main roof, above which a dome and tower rises 108 feetmore: the American Surety, 21 stories, 312 feet high; thePark Row Syndicate building (now in course of erection) 26 storiesto main roof, and a total of 386 feet in height to top of towers, andthe Empire building, s. w. cor. Broadway and )\Iorris street, 21 stor-

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