1902New York
Flatiron Building, Fifth Avenue and Broadway
Detroit Photographic Co.
Street photograph
1902·New York
Flatiron Building, Fifth Avenue and Broadway
Detroit Photographic Co.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The completed Flatiron photographed from the street: the prow at Twenty-third, carriages, a clock, the new tower filling the view. A camera at ground level, 1902. Not the 1873 harbor lithograph. Early steel-frame construction as a physical object, not as a skyline argument.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Flatiron Building (Fuller Building)
- Region
- North America
- Documented completion
- 1902
- Architect
- Daniel Burnham; D. H. Burnham & Co.
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands. Steel frame, stone and terracotta skin.
- Source
- New York Public Library, Image ID 804860. Gelatin silver print issued 1902.
- License
- Public domain.
Chronologies
An 1873 harbor lithograph, then cameras on steel-frame construction: Flatiron 1902, Woolworth ironwork 1912, the finished tower, the city seen from it. Singer Tower, photographed standing, was demolished in 1967–68 — that demolition is a separate documented event.
New York — masonry to steel frame