New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-23
BUILDING DEPARTMENT ESTIMATES


table Iifc Assurance sociery's buildings are the
costlicst structures the city The figure for each
is t2cD00. although m" estimate set down for the
Manhattan Life Insurance Company's building In
lower broadway. said 10 be the tailest building In
America IS only $4,000 While It's certain
for reasons that will he apparent later on. that the
Equitable and the Produce Exchange have cost
each moro than 'wice much the hled est
mates before they were I'm a condition TO l." occu
pied by the tenants. 1t is reasonably accurate To
surmise that the Manhattan Life building. when
equipped in tn" same manner. may cost more than
either OF them.
Almost In a bunch you might say. are the three
great buildings which make the historic little spot
called Bowling Green look smaller than ever. the
Washington Building. the building Of the Standard
OH Company and the Wellcs Building. Up Broadway
there are many more large structures before one
reaches the place where the Western Union Tcle-
graph Company has It's network of wires converg-
ing from all over the Union. and not far away Is
the Iiavcmcyer Building by this time IN" tray
ecr finds himself In the vicinity Of the Postoi'ice.
that unsighy block that has been compared to 4
huge fcrryboat that long long ago came noatinI
down broadway and got stranded there. And now
CONES the roar and turmoil OF Newspaper Row
with the Tribune Building. enormous as II appears.
overtopped by some Of its ncighbors WHICH soar
higher stlll. and these in turn soon to be over
topped by the American Tract Socicty's building
now N of erection at Nassau ana spruce
the Potter Building and Temple Court all are close
together and all so high that looking at that part
of Nassau-s from little distance you might sup
pose yourself able just to step across
THE LOFTY TOwERLIKE STRUCTURES.
Curious types Of tall buildings are those that
Dawson a. Archer engaged principally In put
ting up They built the first Office building OF this
kind called the Tower Building. at No 80 BROAD
way which resembles tower more than anything
else The Decker building. In Union Square. though
by means so massive. resembles In general out
line the Manhattan Life. and IT, too. Is towerlike
in its proportions. The steel and iron frame fire
proof building at Fulton and Dutch SITS. OF which
there Is a good view from the Tribune building.
would be certain to be aimed at by n British man
of-war II one OF John Bulls marine fortresses
could ever get far as Coney Island And the
two big buildings. one at No. 81 Lafayette Place
and the other at Broome and Elm SITS. built ana
owned by j. r. Williams. are worthy OF note
Leaving these and walking through City Hall
Park one approaches the Home Life Insurance
Company and the Postal Telegraph buildings;
and not far away the peculiarly shaped home OF
the National Shoe and Leather Bank, the Ernigrant
Industrial Savings Bank the Stewart Building. ana
the Edison Illuminating Companys structure in
Duane-st At the northwest corner Of Broadway
and Duane-st IL "A "skyscraper," the Mutual Re
serve Building estimated cost 100000. and farther
I'm AT broadway and Houston-st. Is the Gable
Building another $4,000 anair-not forgetting the
,a,atIal structure only about "A block away which
that unique and successful citZeh 'haries broau-
way Rouss. built and owns
The Board OF Home and Foreign Missions OF the
PRESBYTERIAN Church Is putting up a tweve-story
office building at Flfth-ave. and Twentieth-st.
s750 600; and two blocks farther downtown on the
opposite side of Fifth-ave.. Is the fourteen-story
.skyscraper'' OF Arnold. Constable Co.. estimated
at the same figure
A few more great buildings, existing or planned.
and not SO remarkable for their height as for the
amount of money invested In them. are the Cathe-
dral Of St John the Divine. the new Columbia Col
To-. . Nd the new St. Luke's HOSPITAL. at Morning.