The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is a skyscraper occupying a full block in the Flatiron District of Manhattan in New York City. The building is composed of two sections: a 700-foot-tall (210 m) tower at the northwest corner of the block, at Madison Avenue and 24th Street, and a shorter east wing occupying the remainder of the block bounded by Madison Avenue, Park Avenue South, 23rd Street, and 24th Street. The South Building, along with the North Building directly across 24th Street, comprises the Metropolitan Home Office Complex, which originally served as the headquarters of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
The tower (center) seen from below with clock faces; the east wing is to the right, and the New York Merchandise Mart (far left) and Metropolitan Life North Building (near left) can also be seen
Detailed view of the clock face on the tower's Western side
The pyramidal roof of the tower has dormer windows and is topped by a peristyle and cupola.
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The Singer Building was an office building and early skyscraper in Manhattan, New York City. The headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company, was at the northwestern corner of Liberty Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. Frederick Gilbert Bourne, leader of the Singer Company, commissioned the building, which architect Ernest Flagg designed in multiple phases from 1897 to 1908. The building's architecture contained elements of the Beaux-Arts and French Second Empire styles.
The Singer Building seen from Broadway, looking north from the Equitable Building, September 1967
The original Singer Building formed part of the base of the completed building. September 1967
Singer Building in 1910