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WASHINGTON LIFE BUILDING

architect

C. L. W. Eidlitz

location

Broadway and Liberty Streets.

date

1898

style

German Renaissance dormers Historicist Skyscrapers

construction

 Gleaming bronze tiled roof with its base was faced with pink granite and its shaft clad with smooth limestone.

type

Office Building

 

 
 

WASHINGTON LIFE BUILDING
This insurance headquarters was completed in 1898 by C. L. W. Eidlitz with German Renaissance dormers on its gleaming bronze tiled roof. Its base was faced with pink granite and its shaft clad with smooth limestone. Though considered one of the most positively attractive and popular downtown skyscrapers, it was eventually demolished.

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