page_title: List of early skyscrapers
section_title: The "First Great Age" (1900–19)
hierarchical_section_title: List of early skyscrapers / The "First Great Age" (1900–19)
caption_attribution_description: English: Glossy color postcard of "The Woolworth Building and City Hall Park, New York City". Published by The American Art Publishing Co., New York city, #R-41094. back reads "City Hall Park from the Municipal building, and Park Row looking toward the Woolworth Building and Broadway. City Hall Park covers an area of 8 1/4 acres is the scene of all official ceremonies, from the celebration of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie 1812 to opening of Subway on October 27, 1904. Department of City Government occupying 15 buildings in end around the Park."
context_page_description: This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1880 and the 1930s, predominantly in the U.S. cities of New York and Chicago but also across the rest of the U.S. and in many other parts of the world.
caption: The Woolworth Building overlooking the Old Post Office and City Hall Park, with the peaks of the Singer Tower and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower just visible (l)
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