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Title: A History of New York City Skyscrapers (With Bibliography)
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April 23, 1999 |
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In 1892 the Manhattan Life Insurance Company help a nation-wide competition to see who would be the architect for there new building, at 64-66 Broadway across from Trinity Church. Two men by the name of Kimball and Thompson won the competition and there job was to build the tallest structure in New York at the time... Showed first 250 characters
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This building contained a number of engineering firsts. This was one of the first cases of a building being heated and cooled through electric ventilation. When finished in 1894 this building stood at an outstanding 348 feet tall. The Manhattan Life Building was featured in the New York Times in October of 1893; this building was described as "the tallest in the world, a giant among the office buildings of New York, eighteen stories for the fine new structure of the Manhattan Life Insurance Company... Showed next 250 characters
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