Singer Building

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Singer Building

building, New York City, New York, United States

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Early steel-frame high-rises
The Singer Building (1907) by the architect Ernest Flagg rose to 47 stories (184 meters or 612 feet), Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building (1913) attained a height of 238 meters (792 feet) at 55 stories, and Shreve, Lamb & Harmon’s 102-story Empire State Building (1931) touched 381…
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The Singer Building (1907) by the architect Ernest Flagg rose to 47 stories (184 meters or 612 feet), Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building (1913) attained a height of 238 meters (792 feet) at 55 stories, and Shreve, Lamb & Harmon’s 102-story Empire State Building (1931) touched 381…
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