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Architecture Images- Gone / Demolished / Destroyed WASHINGTON BUILDING Field Office |
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Edward H. Kendall |
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Battery Pl., West to Washington Sts |
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1885- originally covered in heavy dark red masonry, but was remodelled in 1921 with classical Roman-white limestone and mosaic details to be more fashionably Beaux-Arts looking. |
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Historicist Skyscrapers |
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steel frame, masonry cladding |
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Office Building |
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WASHINGTON BUILDING Sometimes called the Field Office, this 258 foot building overlooking the Battery was finished in 1885 by Edward H. Kendall. Decorated in the Queen Anne style, it was originally covered in heavy dark red masonry, but was remodelled in 1921 with classical Roman-white limestone and mosaic details to be more fashionably Beaux-Arts looking. 1903 Washington Bowling Green Office Building ----------- Battery Park and Whitehall Building - Battery Pl., West to Washington Sts.; one of the largest office buildings in the world; 550,000 sq. ft. rentable area; 11,000,000 cu. ft.; original $1,000,000 building, 20 stories, 254 ft. high, opened 1903; $4,600,000 addition, 34 stories, 416 ft. high, completed 1911; frontage, 180 ft. on Battery Pl., 264 on Washington St., 307 ft. on West St., garden on Washington St. so secure light and air to all suites; area of combined plots, 51,515 sq. ft., of 21 city lots; 30 high-speed electric traction elevators. |
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