Guardian Life Building, Manhattan

Photo shows Guardian Life Insurance Building as the main subject, former Germania Life Building on Forth Avenue (now 201 Park Avenue South) at East 17th Street, NYC. This 20-story skyscraper with mansard roof, completed in 1911, was designed in Renaissance Revival by local firm D'Oench & Yost and is generally considered to be this firm’s most significant structure. In 1988, the Guardian Life Insurance building was designated a New York City landmark and was converted into a hotel in 2000. Photo copyrighted 1918 by Irving Underhill, the same year the name of the building changed. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

View from northwest side of Union Square Park. The 16-story Everett Building, on the left, was erected in 1908 on the site of the old Everett House, opened in 1853.