175 Fifth Avenue
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-storey steel-framed building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city at 20 floors high, and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street - the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. The fascia is limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terracotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise.
175 Fifth Avenue
The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-storey steel-framed building located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city at 20 floors high, and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street - the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling. The fascia is limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terracotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise.