Post Office and Tribune Buildings - 1876
Enlargement of the Panorama by Joshua Beals, from the Western Union Telegraph Building at 195 Broadway, corner of Dey Street to the City Hall Park and west tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, seen from East River. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Western Union Telegraph Building, on the left, was completed in 1875 at 195 Broadway, corner of Dey Street. It was then the tallest building in the New York City, although shorter than the Trinity Church spire. We can see, next to it, the Evening Post Building on Broadway, corner of Fulton Street, completed in the same year. The Tribune Building, on the left, at Printing House Square, facing City Hall Square, was also completed in the same year.
The Post Office Building, constructed at the intersection of Broadway and Park Row, was completed in 1880, but the building began to be occupied in 1875.
Third enlargement of the Panorama, from Trinity Church to the Evening Post Building on Broadway, corner of Fulton Street.
Fifth enlargement of the Panorama, showing the west tower of Brooklyn Bridge under construction.
Sixth, seventh and eighth enlargements of the Panorama, north from Roosevelt Street, near the west tower of Brooklyn Bridge.
Another fragment (to the left) of the same panorama. The spires of Trinity Church was the tallest structure in New York until 1888, when it was surpassed by the spires of the St. Patrick's Cathedral.
From the Panorama by Joshua Beals
Post Office and Tribune Buildings - 1876
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