#singer building

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Construction workers sitting on a hoisting ball above the city skyline, ca. 1925. The Singer Building is in the background.

Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images

[route22ny]

Postcard view from the Singer Building in lower Manhattan, once the tallest building in the world. It later became the tallest building ever to be demolished, a distinction held until the WTC disaster. This postcard is probably circa 1910 and comes from the collection of the New York Public Library.

[angelkarafilli]

1910.The Singer Building was the first in New York to be dramatically lit at night. This postcard's boast "Highest building in the world" would last only 18 months.

[someday-dreamlands]

Singer Building, el edificio más alto del mundo de 1908 a 1909, visto desde Broadway en 1967 (Manhattan, Nueva York)

[onceuponatown]

Singer and Woolworth Bldgs. from 120 Broadway. Manhattan, New York. 1916.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Singer Building, Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA

[1863-project]

As a fan of old things in NYC, do you have any thoughts on the Singer tower?

THAT THING WAS SO COOL AND THEY GOT RID OF IT

For people who haven't seen the former Singer Building, it looked like this:

Commissioned in 1902 and built between 1906-1908, this cool-ass building sadly no longer exists and frankly, it's disappointing. It was the tallest building in the world for about a year before the Metropolitan Life Tower went up, also in NYC. The Singer Building was the tallest building in the world to be demolished when it came down in 1968.

[vintagemanhattanskyline]

Lower Manhattan’s Financial District skyline. View looking west from St. George Hotel, in Brooklyn. Spring, 1931.

Photo: William Frange. 

Source: Richards Tropical Encyclopedia, Vol. 11. New York, The Richards Company, Inc., 1961.