1912New York
Woolworth Building — ironwork, 4 April 1912
Unidentified photographer. Dated on the negative 4 April 1912.
Street photograph
1912·New York
Woolworth Building — ironwork, 4 April 1912
Unidentified photographer. Dated on the negative 4 April 1912.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The Woolworth frame going up: steel, timber staging, neighboring masonry, a street of carts. Dated 4 April 1912. A camera on a building site. The finished tower is a later plate. Do not collapse construction and completion into one image.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Woolworth Building
- Region
- North America
- Documented completion
- 1913
- Architect
- Cass Gilbert
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands. This plate is construction, not the finished tower.
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, ppmsca.54252.
- 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