c. 1913New York
Woolworth Building
Period stereograph. Issued as the tower newly completed.
Street photograph
c. 1913·New York
Woolworth Building
Period stereograph. Issued as the tower newly completed.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The completed Woolworth tower photographed from the street: Gothic cladding on a steel frame, the sidewalk, neighboring piles. A camera at the foot of a finished high-rise. Set it beside the 1873 harbor lithograph and beside the April 1912 ironwork plate. Three different kinds of record.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Woolworth Building
- Region
- North America
- Documented completion
- 1913
- Architect
- Cass Gilbert
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands at 233 Broadway.
- Source
- Library of Congress stereo collection (1s06999).
- 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