Purdy and Henderson
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Purdy and Henderson was a New York City-based engineering firm founded by Corydon Tyler Purdy and Lightner Henderson. They were active in the United States and Cuba between 1890 and 1944.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, 1911
One Times Square, New York City, 1904
Flatiron Building construction, New York City, 1902
Lonja del Comercio building, Havana, Cuba, 1909
Flatiron Building
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The Flatiron Building is a 22-story, 307-foot-tall steel-framed triangular building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, US. Designed by D
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…San Francisco, among others. Purdy and Henderson designed several buildings in New York City, including One Times Square, Macy's Herald Square, and the Flatiron Building. Purdy had been a draftsman and surveyor's assistant in Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul and in Chicago, IL, in the early 1880s. Purdy specialized in…
The Flatiron Building in January 2010
After the end of World War I, the 165th New York Infantry Regiment passes through the Victory Arch in Madison Square, with the Flatiron Building in the background (1919).
The Flatiron Building on a magazine cover in 1922