Manhattan Municipal Building (New York, NY) : Close view of the building's top, from southeast
- Creator:
- McKim, Mead, and White, 1879-1910
- Published/Created:
- New York, New York, United States
1909-1915 - Physical Description:
- 580 ft (height, tower)
- Date Depicted:
- 1994
1900 AD - 1949 AD - Materials:
- stone
- Notes:
- A 40-story building built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of The Five Boroughs. Construction began in 1909 and ended in 1915, marking the end of the City Beautiful movement in New York. McKim, Mead and White (lead architect, William M. Kendall), designed it to be the first building to incorporate a New York City Subway station into its base. Enormously influential in the civic construction of other American cities, its application of Beaux-Arts architecture served as the prototype.
- Topics:
- Architecture -- United States -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Twentieth century
- Culture:
- American
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-MM-MB-A4
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
office buildings (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Sculptures, Models, & Architecture
- Rights:
- Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement. - Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Digital:
- cupola; tower architecture; City planning; city government Beaux-Arts; Twentieth century buildings; office buildings; buildings; public buildings; municipal buildings; city halls The statue of Civic Fame on top of the Municipal Building, installed March 1
- Source Creator:
- Gilchrist, Scott
- Source Title:
- Archivision Addition Module Five
- Source Created:
- 2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
1994 - Source Note:
- Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Local Record Number:
- 4090
- OID:
- 10054295
- PID:
- digcoll:1793504