The Flatiron Building (New York)

Flatiron Building

175 Fifth Avenue
(Fifth Avenue, between East 22nd & East 23rd)
New York, NY
Structure: steel frame; limestone cladding
Completed 1902
Architect: Daniel H. Burnham
Style: Chicago Early Modern

New York's oldest surviving skyscraper.

Photo courtesy Patrick Beckers, http://home.wanadoo.nl/patriczik/skyscrapers.htm

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