The Equitable Building is an office skyscraper located at 120 Broadway, between Pine and Cedar streets, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, in New York City. The skyscraper was designed by E
The building in 2010
Building entrance
1912 fire
The Equitable Building in a postcard dated from before 1919
Early skyscrapers
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The earliest stage of skyscraper design encompasses buildings built between 1884 and 1945, predominantly in American cities, especially New York and Chicago. Cities in the United States were tradition
Equitable Building (Manhattan)
…Building are to the south. Across Broadway to the west and southwest are the Trinity and United States Realty Buildings. The Equitable Building, an early skyscraper, was designed by Ernest R. Graham of D. H. Burnham & Company (later Graham, Anderson, Probst & White), with Peirce Anderson as the architect-in-charge…
The Flatiron Building, New York City, shortly after its construction in 1903
The Produce Exchange of 1884 made structural advances in metal frame design
Early skyscraper caisson foundations, 1898
Chicago's Home Insurance Building, often considered the world's first skyscraper, was completed in 1885