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Cluster of skyscrapers, New York, New York
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Cluster of skyscrapers, New York, New York

{{en|The unusual Flemish style brick building at left of center is the 13-story John Wolfe Building, named for a prosperous New York hardware merchant and built in 1895 by his estate. Designed by the important architect Henry J. Hardenbergh (1847-1918), the building filled a small lot on the east side of William Street between Maiden Lane and Liberty Street. Still greatly lamented by architecture buffs, it was torn down in 1974 as part of an ineffectual street-widening scheme. Its site is now a "glorified traffic island" called Louise Nevelson Plaza. This image might be taken from the Woodbridge Building, 98-106 William Street, 35-41 Platt Street, 70-74 John Street (40.708414, -74.007310); in the background behind the building site (possibly of the Broad Exchange Building) one can see the tower of the Produce Exchange.

Date
c. 1900
Collection
Detroit Publishing Company
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
photograph
Original size
8,122 × 10,331 pixels

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"Cluster of skyscrapers, New York, New York" (c. 1900). Detroit Publishing Company. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cluster_of_skyscrapers,_New_York,_NY_4a08574a_original.jpg

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