- Manhattan Life Insurance Building
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Manhattan Life Insurance Building 
General information Status Demolished Type Commercial offices Location 64-70 Broadway, 17-19 New Street
New York City, New YorkCoordinates 40°42′28″N 74°00′42″W / 40.70778°N 74.01167°WCoordinates: 40°42′28″N 74°00′42″W / 40.70778°N 74.01167°W Construction started 1893 Completed 1894 Demolished 1963 or 1964 Height Roof 348 ft (106 m) Technical details Floor count 18 Design and construction Architect Kimball & Thompson Structural engineer Charles Sooysmith References [1][2][3] The Manhattan Life Insurance Building was a 348 ft (106 m) tower at 64-66 Broadway in New York City completed in 1894 to the designs of the architects of Kimball & Thompson and slightly extended north in 1904 making its new address 64-70 Broadway. It was the first skyscraper to pass 330 ft (100 m) in Manhattan.
In 1926, the building was sold by Manhattan Life Insurance Company to Frederick Brown, who then re-sold it to the Manufacturer's Trust Company a few weeks later. Then, in 1928, it was bought by Central Union Trust Company, whose headquarters adjoined the building to the north, for an undisclosed sum, although the building was assessed at that time at $4 million.[4]
The building was demolished to make way for an Annex to the Irving Trust Company Building, now One Wall Street, completed in 1965. Sources vary about whether the year of demoliton was 1963 or 1964.[5][1][3]
See also
- List of skyscrapers
References
- Notes
- ^ a b Manhattan Life Insurance Building at Emporis
- ^ Manhattan Life Insurance Building at SkyscraperPage
- ^ a b Manhattan Life Insurance Building at Structurae
- ^ "66 Broadway Sold; Long A Landmark" New York Times (February 18, 1928)
- ^ Korom, Joseph (2008). The American skyscraper, 1850-1940: a celebration of height. Branden Books. pp. 199. ISBN 9780828321884. http://books.google.com/books?id=JVzYO1TyZ6AC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. "In 1936, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company relocated its offices to One-Hundred-Twenty West 57th Street in midtown Manhattan. Then, catastrophe arrived when the building was only 69 years old; in a 1963 act of utter desecration, the Manhattan Life Insurance Building was demolished."
Timeline of tallest buildings in New York City Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (c.1643) · Trinity Church (85 m) (1846) · New York World Building (94 m) (1890) · Manhattan Life Insurance Building (100 m) (1894) · Park Row Building (119 m) (1899) · Singer Building (187 m) (1908) · Metropolitan Life Tower (213 m) (1909) · Woolworth Building (241 m) (1913) · 40 Wall Street (283 m) (1929) · Chrysler Building (320 m) (1930) · Empire State Building (443 m) (1931) · World Trade Center (526 m) (1973) · Empire State Building (443 m) (2001)
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