Park Row Building

The Park Row Building is a 1899 finished building at City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan neighborhood in New York. The high-rise (English: "high-rise building" ) has a height of 119 meters ( 391 feet) and 30 floors. The architect was Robert Henderson Robertson. From 1899 to 1908 it was the tallest skyscraper in the world and is the oldest existing record holder. It was in 1908 replaced by the now-defunct Singer Building as the tallest building in the world and very nearly of a planned construction in the 33rd Street, designed in 1901 but dropped again.

History

The Park Row Building is considered one of the first true skyscraper in New York. The building was opened in 1899 after 2 years and 9 months of construction. It was also classified among the other buildings in the "Newspaper Row" one, then the center of the newspaper industry in New York. The construction company was Park Row Construction Company, a syndicate, whose lawyer William Mills Ivins acquired the construction area before and then transferred to the Company, which is why the building is partially known by Ivins Syndicate Building.

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