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	Park Row Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Park Row Building was the world's tallest building from 1899 to 1908.
		The Park Row Building is a skyscraper in New York City built in 1899.
		At 391 ft (119.2m) tall it was the tallest skyscraper in the world from 1899 until 1908 when it was surpassed by the Singer Building.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Park_Row_Building (113 words)

	Skyscraper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The somewhat arbitrary term skyscraper should not be confused with the slightly less arbitrary term highrise, defined by the Emporis Data Comittee as "a building which is 35 meters or greater in height, and is divided at regular intervals into occupiable floors" [1].
		Buildings up to about four stories can be supported by their walls, while skyscrapers are larger buildings that must be supported by a skeletal frame.
		It is expected to become the tallest building in the world, and estimates of the height range from 700 to 950 m.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skyscraper (921 words)

	Singer Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Singer Building at Liberty Street and Broadway in Manhattan, New York was an office building completed in 1908 as the headquarters of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
		The building's architect, Ernest Flagg, was a supporter of height limitations and restrictive zoning, and showed his solution to tall building crowding with the Singer's set-back design.
		The building was demolished in 1968 as it was functionally obsolete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singer_Building (294 words)

	Flatiron Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fuller-Doig Building or as it is better known, the Flatiron Building, was one of the tallest buildings in New York City upon its completion in 1902.
		The building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-Arts style on a triangular island block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison Square.
		The 22-story Flatiron Building, with a height of 87 meters (285 ft), is generally considered the oldest surviving skyscraper in Manhattan, though in fact the older Park Row Building (1899) is several stories taller.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flatiron+Building (396 words)

	New York Architecture Images- THE PARK ROW BUILDING
		The 30-story, 391-foot-high Park Row Building was the tallest building in New York City and one of the tallest structures in the world between 1899, the year of its completion, and 1908.
		The building's architect, R. Robertson, who was prominent for his institutional and commercial buildings, designed the Park Row Building using a number of classical elements, including four large sculpted figures set on overscaled brackets, huge columns and pilasters, as well as several projecting ornamental balconies.
		And the news capital of New York was Park Row.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /SCC/SCC012.htm (1464 words)

	Park Row (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Park Row Building still stands facing City Hall in lower Manhattan.
		The building is measured officially at 386 feet, but counting its lanterns, it actually rises to 391 feet.
		Critics of the time weren't thrilled by the structure's design, calling its towers "insignificant terminations, which add nothing." They also commented that the Park Row Building and the 315-foot St. Paul Building, which is directly opposite, "stand and swear at each other" across the street.
	home.wanadoo.nl /gvandevijver/civiel/bbt/1899.htm (75 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Building Types
		One disincentive to building higher buildings is that the cost of construction per floor increases with the height of the building because the entire building structure, including foundations and vertical supports, must be stronger.
		The building was described on the 1904 postcard to the left as the "largest office building in the world." It is the tallest building in the world that is supported primarily by brick load bearing walls.
		The Park Row Building (on right in photograph) was the tallest building in the world until 1908.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /TYPE/TYPE-Office.htm (2457 words)

	Park Row Associates - Independent Mortgage and Financial Advisers
		Park Row is one of the UK ’s largest and fastest-growing financial advice companies and is uniquely positioned to provide solutions to meet all the financial planning requirements of individuals and businesses alike.
		Park Row are committed to the concept of independent financial advice and believe in the importance of delivering a tailor-made personal service.
		Park Row Corporate and Private Clients is a specialist division of Park Row which provides wealth management and tax avoidance strategies to companies, company owners and wealthy individuals.
	www.parkrow.co.uk (356 words)

	NEW YORK SCRAPERS - EARLY CENTURY I
		The 11-storey, 48-meter building had an internal steel frame as the load-bearing structure, and the architect reserved the two top floors for his own use to take away any suspicions that the new owner might have about the strength of the building.
		After the height of the New York Times Building at Park Row, behind which the Tract Society rose, was raised in 1905 (when the newspaper had already left the premises for the Times Tower in Midtown), the penthouse was demolished due to a blocked view from the apartment.
		After only occupying this building for less than a decade, the N.Y. Times moved to the nearby building at 229 W 43rd Street, next to the Paramount Building, in 1913 (from which the paper also acquired office space after its theater was gutted).
	www.greatgridlock.net /NYC/nyc1.html (2395 words)

	Potter Building, 38 Park Row
		The preceding O. Potter-owned building on this spot was destroyed in a terrible fire, and Mr.
		The burning of the previous building is the climax of Jack Finney's historical romance, "Time and Again", about a man who travels back in time to 1882 NYC.
		I knew a time when this building and fire were as though they'd never been, and so I had the feeling now.
	www.nycjpg.com /2003/pages/0703.html (450 words)

	Pace University
		Enrollment was at a post-war high and the 41 Park Row building was bursting at the seams.
		Renovations at 41 Park Row, in addition to the utilization of space at 140 Nassau Street and 38 Park Row (both of which were purchased in 1972) and 148 Nassau Street, enabled the College to function efficiently through the early 1970s.
		Pace decided not to go ahead with this, but the College's original plan for the erection of a multi-use building was unveiled in May 1966 when a detailed model of the $12 million campus center, designed by the architectural firm of Eggers and Higgins, was placed on display.
	webpage.pace.edu /mweigold/paceplaza.html (1052 words)

	Office Buildings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Also in lower Manhattan, after 1865 some office buildings without elevators were taller than five stories, but apparently the top floors generally were not used for offices.
		The incentive to build taller buildings is that taller buildings use less land per square foot of office space.
		One disincentive to building higher office buildings is that the cost of construction per floor increases with the height of the building because the entire building structure, including foundations and vertical supports, must be stronger.
	www.netangola.com /EarlyOfficeMuseum/office_buildings.htm (1919 words)

	Park Row Building, New York City
		The Park Row Building was the tallest skyscraper in the world from 1899 until 1908 when it was surpassed by the Singer Building.
		This was the first building in the world ever to reach 30 floors, and is the tallest skyscraper in the world from the 19th Century.
		Located across from City Hall Park, the Park Row Building remains, by virtue of its height and twin cupola-topped towers, one of the most distinctive buildings in lower Manhattan.
	www.emporis.com /en/wm/bu/?id=116156 (385 words)

	parkro01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Park Row Building, located on 15 Park Row, was built in 1896-1899 at the intersection of Broadway and Park Row.
		This 32-storey, twin-domed building rises to a height of 384 ft. When it was opened, it took the title of the world's tallest building from the neighboring, 26-storey St. Paul Building (312 ft.), completed only a few months earlier.
		The building also features twin courtyards on the Ann Street side, allowing as much natural light into the building's interior as possible.
	home.att.net /~pablofernandez/parkro01.htm (187 words)

	New York Architecture Images- SEARCH- seaport and civic center
		Row houses on Broadway surrounded St. Paul's, and made an appropriate setting for the church during the early 19th Century.
		At Park Row, the buildings rose higher as the newspaper business grew, making it the site of some of the city's first skyscrapers.
		Begun in 1907, the building was a construction nightmare since the city's bedrock falls off here, and the first IRT subway roared beneath it.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /SCC/SCC.htm (500 words)

	Park Row Building - Wired New York Forum
		The building housed the offices of the Associated Press news agency which had been incorporated in New York in 1900.
		The building's location was originally called "Newspaper Row," due to the number of New York press in the area.
		The Seagram Building*, in fact, would turn the same shade of green if it were not cleaned once a year with a special lemon solvent.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?t=3680 (355 words)

	The War in the Air (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		She was stationed over the temporary City Hall in the Park Row building, and every now and then she would descend to resume communication with the mayor and with Washington.
		Below, the immense buildings, tremendous and fine as they were, seemed like the giant trees of a jungle fighting for life; their picturesque magnificence was as planless as the chances of crag and gorge, their casualty enhanced by the smoke and confusion of still unsubdued and spreading conflagrations.
		The buildings to the east of it were ablaze at a dozen points, under the flaming tatters and warping skeleton of the airship, and all the roofs and walls were ridiculously askew and crumbling as one looked.
	home.att.net /~srschmitt/hgwells/warinair/war_in_air-006.html (7197 words)

	Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown Market Report: Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Park 10 is a 550-acre, mixed-use development along Interstate 10 at Katy Freeway in the heart of the Energy Corridor.
		The building is 93 percent leased to tenants.
		The building, which has an advertised rental rate of $19 per square foot, is one of three in the 570,000-square-foot complex at the southeast corner of West Loop 610 and Southwest Freeway in the Galleria submarket.
	recenter.tamu.edu /mreports/HoustonSLBay4.asp (15767 words)

	Wired New York Forum - mystery vista
		The fact that the Empire State Building is in the final two doesn't lend much credibility for authenticity, nor does the fake hill in the foreground.
		Just to the left of Woolworth is the Transportation Building, and immediately to the left of that are the twin domes of the Park Row Bldg.
		I think, though, that the building on the far right is actually on Broadway, on the west side of City Hall Park.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=6078 (240 words)

	Park Row Office Building, Houston, Texas
		Park 10 is a 550 acre regional office and business park located in West Houston.
		The park has frontage on Interstate 10 and Highway 6, two of Houston's major thoroughfares.
		This building is a prime example of attention to interior detail in an atrium office structure.
	www.citiplexcorp.com /projects/commercial/parkrow.htm (136 words)

	The Viewing Wall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Text: Completed in 1899, at thirty stories and 391 feet, the Park Row Building, at the far left of this skyline view, was the tallest office building in New York and in the world.
		Text: By 1908, when the Singer tower capped the skyline at 612 feet, the Park Row Building seemed dwarfed by a new generation of skyscrapers.
		Squeezed onto the same block as the Singer was the City Investing Company Building, and one block north rose the enormous Hudson Terminal.
	www.skyscraper.org /EXHIBITIONS/VIEWING_WALL/CONTENT/history05pop.htm (146 words)

	Municipal Engineers: Rapid Transit in New York City (1903) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By the terms of his contract, the Contractor not only builds the road, but is to operate it for a term of fifty years.
		The work in front of the Park Row Building where many of you gentlemen have your offices, has been in the last four or five months, and on the east side of Park Row, i.e., on the opposite side of the Post Office there has been a trench dug about 12 ft.
		In lower Broadway an attempt is being made to temporarily replace the surface of the street by planking, and then pursuing the same method as pursued in Park Row, with the shafts in front of St.
	www.nycsubway.org /articles/rapidtransitnyc.html (3076 words)

	The Century in Times Square (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The first issue of The New York Times was published in an unfinished office building at 113 Nassau Street on Sept. 18, 1851.
		Three years later the paper moved to bigger quarters in a brownstone at Beekman and Nassau Streets and in less than three more years it built its own five-story building on Park Row overlooking City Hall.
		When the building was finished in 1904 it was, at 375 feet, the second-tallest building in the world, after the 386-foot Park Row Building.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/times-square/e-namesake2.html (204 words)

	conversations we've not heard
		But there is another thing: Trees and buildings, fountains, clocks and graveyards - solid artifacts of urban spatial and temporal expansion that are fixed and without perceived intelligence or memory.
		Mute objects that fill up the spaces they inhabit with an experience of sameness, even as they transform themselves, visibly and plainly, from season to season and year to year.
		Through the use of live microphones, a database of previously collected information and voice recognition algorithms based on the grammatical rules of the universal language of Esperanto, the chatter streams in the area surrounding City Hall Park, in lower Manhattan, are translated into audible sonic structures, revealing the conversations we've not heard.
	www.treetheater.org /conversations.html (336 words)

	WBKO \| Park Row Construction Project Well-Underway
		The new Park Row building project on Bowling Green's historic Downtown Square is well underway.
		The project is slated to house two to three businesses (most likely restaurants appealing to the lunchtime crowd) on the first floor, and 40 housing units for retired couples or families on the top three floors.
		The building's placement has already had one trickle-down effect: the Military Affairs Board decided Monday to move the planned memorial military statues from in front of the old Warren County courthouse to the side courtyard, to increase their visibility once the Park Row project is complete.
	www.wbko.com /home/headlines/663971.html (155 words)

	New York Architecture Images- THE FLATIRON BUILDING
		First, the building is divided in three parts, the base in rusticated buff limestone with copper-clad windows, the main body of pale-colored bricks and terra-cotta with unusual and gracious undulating oriels, and the capital represented here by arches and columns topped by a heavy projected cornice and a flat balustraded roof.
		The building was put up for use as offices by the George A. Fuller Company of Chicago, which had long been a major American contracting firm.
		The Flatiron Building's triangular steel frame was also not particularly innovative, although the engineers, Purdy and Henderson, had to allow for greater than average wind bracing because the building was fairly narrow and had less bulk to provide wind resistance.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /GRP/GRP024.htm?id=114793 (1224 words)

	SKYSCRAPER FORUM - THREADS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		What were the tallest buildings in the world from the earliest skyscrapers (circa 1985) until the Park Row Building took honors in 1899?
		He also mentions the 1899 St. Paul Building which "brought the title "World's Tallest" to New York": "A narrow, 25-story neo-Classical tower by famed architect George B. Post, it was eclipsed a few months later by the neighboring Park Row Building".
		The St. Paul Building (1897-99) was replaced in 1959 by the 222 Broadway by Emery Roth & Sons.
	www.greatgridlock.net /NYC/nythr-22.html (225 words)

	Park Row Building Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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