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New YorK City NY ~ Con Edison Building

The Consolidated Edison Company Building, designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh for the Consolidated Gas Company, was built between 1910 and 1914. Warren & Wetmore's 16-story tower – topped by a "Tower of Light" designed to look like a miniature temple and capped by a bronze lantern which lights up at night ] was added between 1926 and 1929.

 

 

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Uploaded on February 23, 2011