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100 Park Avenue Building |
The 100 Park Avenue Building, formerly known as the Medical Arts Building, is a high-rise in downtown Oklahoma City. The 100 Park Avenue Building has 12 stories and is 160 feet (49 m) tall. The building is constructed in the Art Deco style and was designed by Solomon Andrew Layton.[2] It opened in 1923, at which poi... |
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Art Deco style emphasizes geometric forms: spheres, polygons, rectangles, trapezoids, zigzags, chevrons, and sunburst motifs. Elements are often arranged in symmetrical patterns. Modern materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, Bakelite, chrome, and plastics are used. Colors tend to be vivid and high-contrast.[3][4]... |
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10 East 40th Street |
10 East 40th Street or the Mercantile Building is a skyscraper on 40th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, in the middle of the block between Fifth and Madison avenues, extending back to 39th Street. Designed by Ludlow and Peabody and built by Jesse H. Jones, it was finished in 1929 and is an example of Renaiss... |
It is 632 feet (193 m) high, with 48 floors, and contains 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m2) of office or mixed-use space.[2] |
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It was previously known as the Chase Tower, after its first tenant, Chase Brass & Copper. Its owner until his death in 1938 was Frederick William Vanderbilt. |
During the 1970s, the building housed part of the Mid-Manhattan Library.[4] In September 2002, the building's lobby was renovated, restoring the 15-foot (4.6 m) ceilings. Current tenants include the Moroccan consulate. |
Last building on the direct current grid |
On November 14, 2007, the building became the final site to be removed from Thomas Edison's original direct current grid in New York City.[5] |
The building was completed in 1929 when 90 percent of the electricity in lower Manhattan was direct current.[6] In that year New York Edison announced plans that it was going to convert the entire system to alternating current. The last 2 rotary converter substations generating direct current (at West 26th and West 39... |
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10th Street Market |
10th Street Market, also known as the Swan's Market, Oakland Free Market or the Sanitary Free Market, was a commercial market district in Oakland, California. 10th Street Market was built in 1917 and expanded in 1926. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on August 3, 2001. It is now known as Swan's... |
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1100 Grand Concourse |
1100 Grand Concourse is a co-operative apartment building located in the Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. It was built in 1928 and was originally called the John Ericsson Building; John Ericsson's name can still be found in several parts of the structure. It has been considered by The New York Times... |
The building is part of the Grand Concourse Historic District.[1] |
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111 Eighth Avenue |
111 Eighth Avenue, also known as the Google Building and formerly known as Union Inland Terminal #1 and the Port Authority Building, is an Art Deco multi-use building in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Fifteen stories tall and occupying an entire city block, it has 2.9 million square feet (270,000... |
The Port of New York Authority began acquiring the land on the building's site in 1930, against the protests of local residents. It was completed in 1932 and served as an inland terminal for the Hudson River piers and as a warehousing and industrial facility. Occupancy fell to 50 percent in the 1970s due to the decline... |
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111 Eighth Avenue occupies the full city block between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.[1] The building, completed in 1932, was designed by Lusby Simpson of Abbott, Merkt & Co.[2][3] The building is 15 stories tall and has 2.9 million square fee... |
Its exterior is in the Art Deco style[10] and features recurring seagull motifs.[5] The walls are largely made of brick, with granite bases; the first two stories are limestone, and copings and finials are of terracotta.[11] Because of the warehouse mission of the building, it was able to avoid some of the setback rule... |
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Original use |
The building had a multipurpose design when it opened in 1932, with the first floor and basement designated as "Union Inland Terminal #1", which was to be used to transport goods by truck to and from railroad lines and shipping piers on the Hudson River.[14] Cargo was dropped off along 15th Street, sorted inside the bu... |
The second floor contained Commerce Hall, designed for exhibitions.[19] The upper floors were intended for manufacturing.[12][13] Each floor covered 165,000 sq ft (15,300 m2).[20] There were 16 loading docks on each floor.[21] On the 15th floor, which contained the Port Authority's offices, engineer Aymar Embury II des... |
Current use |
The building's design retains vestiges of its original industrial purpose, including truck-sized freight elevators and floors built to support heavy loads.[1] As of 2008[update], two of its original truck elevators were still in use, in addition to nine other large freight elevators and fourteen passenger elevators.[9]... |
History |
Union Inland Terminal #1 and Port Authority Commerce Building |
By the early twentieth century, the West Side of Manhattan was plagued with heavy traffic because of the tangle of street-level passenger and freight trains on the West Side Line, cargo unloading from the busy Hudson River piers, and the lack of suitable warehouse facilities.[7]: 140–151 The situation led the Port of ... |
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In May 1930, the Port Authority and all of the railroads in the Port of New York agreed to build a "union inland freight terminal" between Eighth Avenue, 15th Street, Ninth Avenue, and 16th Street.[29][30] The terminal was planned to cost $15 million and would include office space,[30][31] as well as large driveways an... |
A contract for the demolition of existing structures was awarded in December 1930.[34] Twelve railroads signed an agreement with the Port Authority to use the new terminal at the beginning of January 1931,[39][40] and contractors immediately began razing the site.[40][41] The Godwin Construction Company was contracted ... |
Four hundred railroad managers were invited to inspect the new terminal on September 9, 1932.[48][49] Inland Terminal No. 1 was formally dedicated the next week, September 16, though the building was not at that time fully completed.[50][51] At the time it was the largest building in New York City.[11] The building ult... |
Opening and early years |
Tenants had begun moving into the upper stories even before the building's dedication.[57] By the beginning of 1933, eight hundred shipping firms were using the terminal to ship outbound freight, while fifty shippers received inbound freight there.[58] Upon the building's opening, the Port Authority leased the terminal... |
The Port Authority hired Caldwell, Garvan & Bettini in October 1933 to construct a lobby, stair, and foyer for Commerce Hall on the building's second floor.[26] Commerce Hall opened on December 8, 1933, with an exhibit of Ford Motor Company vehicles.[19][66] The terminal saw early success in reducing truck traffic to ... |
1940s to early 1970s |
The Board of Estimate approved an agreement in 1940, in which the Port Authority would make annual $60,000 payments in lieu of taxes on the building.[70][71] The building remained 95 percent occupied at the time.[72] Its tenants during the early 1940s included Sears, Roebuck and Company,[73] as well as a regional offic... |
The Port Authority began erecting a helipad on the building's roof in November 1950,[78][79] and the helipad opened on May 31, 1951.[80][81] It was the site of an accident on July 13, 1955, when a Bell 47 helicopter operated by the Port Authority crashed shortly after take-off and fell, in flames, onto the fifteenth fl... |
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