Empire Building on West Side Broadway - 1910
Empire Building, 71 and 73 Broadway, corner Rector Street. Trinity Church is to the right and American Express Building is to the left, both out of the picture. Photograph published in 1910 in the book Both Sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to Central Park.
The Empire Building (now 71 Broadway Apartments) was built on the site of a 5-story commercial building, between 1897 and 1898, with 21 stories above ground, being 89 m (293 feet) tall. It was built by Marc Eidlitz & Son and designed by Kimball & Thompson in the Classical Revival style.
The Empire Building was erected on the site of the old Lutheran Church, erected about 1674 and the old English Free School, both destroyed in the Great Fire of 1776. The original temple of the Grace Church was built on this site, facing Broadway, from 1806 to 1809 and demolished in the 1840s. The site was the occupied by a commercial building.
22 - Buildings on east side of Broadway, near Wall Street - 1910.
Empire Building is on the left.
16 - East Side Broadway at Exchange Place, Knickerbocker Trust Co. Building - 1910
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Empire Building on West Side Broadway - 1910
