Flatiron Building (disambiguation)

Flatiron Building (disambiguation)

Flatiron Building may refer to (in chronological order from time of building):
*Flatiron Flats (Eureka Springs, Arkansas) 1880
*Flatiron Building (Toronto), 1892
*Flatiron Building (Atlanta) , 1897
*Flatiron Building (New York) , 1902
*Flatiron Building (Lacombe, Alberta), 1903
*Flatiron Building (San Francisco), 1907
*Flatiron Building (Fort Worth), 1907
*Flatiron Building (Chicago)
*Flatiron Building (Chattanooga)
*Flatiron Building (Columbus, Ohio) (1914)
*Flatiron Building (Portland, Oregon), 1916
*Flatiron Building (Asheville, North Carolina), 1926
*Flatiron Building (Grand Forks, ND)
*Flatiron Hotel (Omaha, NE), 1912

The term "flatiron" refers to the shape of these buildings: a trapezium (British English) or trapezoid (American English) one of whose parallel sides is very short, and whose non-parallel sides are longer than either parallel side.

ee also

* Flatiron District, Manhattan


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