Municipal Building New York - Park Row, City Hall Park - Postcard SP23

Vintage colour postcard showing the Municipal Building, New York City, completed 1913.

Scene Details:

• Imposing Beaux-Arts skyscraper viewed from street level, filling the frame
• Prominent columned tower with gilded figure at the apex (Civic Fame)
• Surrounding lower buildings and street-level activity visible at base
• Caption printed on front: "Municipal Building, New York"

Publisher: Success Postal Card Co., Pub., New York. No. 1150. Divided back. Unused. Post-1913.

Back text: "The new Municipal Building on Park Row, facing City Hall Park, completed 1913, 34 stories (15 in tower), contains offices for the various city departments. Its foundation, the most difficult ever constructed, consists of 116 pneumatic caissons, sunk in some places 260 feet below street level."

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