. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . st known Ijy profession and laity alike,but it is probably the fact. Sir. Posts reputation is closely con-nected with the development of the sky-scraper in this designed the earliest examples of that type of structure—thechief office of the Western Lnion Telegraph Co., the Alills and thePost Buildings, for example. Those were among the first notable at-tempts to produce buildings that depended strictly upon the eleva-tor fo- their serviceableness. They were startling innovat
. A history of real estate, building and architecture in New York City during the last quarter of a century . st known Ijy profession and laity alike,but it is probably the fact. Sir. Posts reputation is closely con-nected with the development of the sky-scraper in this designed the earliest examples of that type of structure—thechief office of the Western Lnion Telegraph Co., the Alills and thePost Buildings, for example. Those were among the first notable at-tempts to produce buildings that depended strictly upon the eleva-tor fo- their serviceableness. They were startling innovations a quar-ter of a century ago, and the fact that they have been so far surpassedin the meantime is due in a very great degree to ]\Ir. Posts inge-nuity and activity. BUILDIXG AXD ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK. 703 The Singer Building. It was somewhat suriirisini;, not td say remarkable, in thisepoch of the tall but unsig-htly office Iniildinq- that a ten-story strnc-ture shoulfl be built on so central and cnstly a site a> that (ui whichthe new SiiiLier now stands. lUu the ctmr^e taken by the. SIXGER BUILDING. Northwest Corner Broadway and Liberty Street Ernest Flagg. Architect. Singer Comjiany in providing a home for itself has met with a pro-portionate amount of commendation from architects, Iniilders, property owners, and the public generally. In the structurenow almost completed the company can justlv pride it>elf in hav-ing erected a building the architectural beauty of whicli is all themore remarkable in comparison with the monstrosities which have 704 A HISTORY OF REAL ESTATE, recently been erected. The Sing-er Huilding, it is generally con-ceded, is the best sjxcimen of an architectural composition in thelower section of the city. The jiroblem of erecting a ten-stor}- building with a frontage ofsixty feet on ]:!roa(hvay and one hundred and ten on Liberty street,was entrusted to Air. Ernest Flagg, of No. 35 Iroad street. Thestyle chosen was that
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