New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-02
THE BUILDINGS OF 1906.
SINGER TO OVERTOP ALL.
The Broad7oay-Cortlandt Also Pro-
iected Last Year.

So many large building projects we're begun IN
the year that 1t would require many columns Of
space to enumerate them all. In the lower Broad
way section the foundations vera laid for at least
three buildings. each OF which will represent an
investment OF many hundred thousand dollars.
At Broadway and Cortandt street, thirty three
story office and store structure is being built at a
cost of SO. 10000 by the Broadway Cortandt Com
pany, from plans drawn by Francis II. Kmhall
On the premises No 155 to 163 Broadway. the
Singer Manufacturing Company is erecting forty
one story brick and stone office building, which
will s15o0GOo. from plans drawn by Ernest
Fagg. The Singer Building will overtop the
Washington monument IN height, and will be the
highest building in America. The main part Of
the building will COMPRISE the remodelled present
Singer Building, a fourteen story structure. and
the eleven story Bourse Office building Liberty
street The entire remodelled building will be of
a uniform height of fourteen stories exclusive OF
the tower annex The Broadway -Cortlandt Build
ing viii be noted for the space II will occupy and
the rentals obtained for every of its floors.
The Broadway Cortlandt Building will stand on
irregular shaped plot with frontage in Broad
way of 1856 feet and depth of 1895 feet. Moro
than five floors Of this building have been already
leased from the plans at yearly rental OF $4,000
for each floor. Each of the leases is for term of
not less than ten years.
An imposing structure erected in the year was
The Evening Post Building, occupying the
premises Nos 20 and "a Vesey street IA by lOI s
by b45 feet. 1t is twelve story brick and stone
Office puliuIils, erected from plans by Robert d.
Kohn for the Garrison Realty Company. The est-
mated cost 100000
At the northeast corner OF William street and
Maiden Lane a home for the Royal Insurance
Company built cost Of $4,000 1t Is
sixteen story brick and stone office building on
a plot 70.15xlo4 feet Howell & Stokes were the
architects.
At the southeast of Wall street and
Broadway. which Is known as tho famous Silliman
plot, eighteen story brick and stone office
building is in course of construction for the Mer-
camille Trust Company Of ST. Louie. The size of
that corner plot is about 29115x3925 feet The es-
timated cost given &237o00 by Barnett,
Hayner & Barnett, the architects. of st. Louis
when the plans fled
short distance north Of this we'll known block
twenty-one story brick and stone office build
ing, to cost 100000. Is being erected from plans
by Francis II. KinnbalI by the Number Ill Broadway
Company, which is subsidiary company of the
the owners OF the Trinity Building. Their
structure now under way will be the twin of the
it and be in every respect ike it. 's %
On the premises No 81 to IL Wall street a
twenty-three story brick and stone office building
70 cost aoo.o0o is being erected by, the Lands
the architect Of that building The parcel is an
irreguaIr plot fronting ell feet in Wall street By
feet. The Trust Company OF America, which con-
trolls the Lands Purchase Company will occupy
At the southeast corner Of Broad and Beaver
streets new home for the Consolidated Stock
and I'd Pe ctr e Exchange Exchange Is being built
of Broadway and Warren street, is being replaced
by twelve story brick and stone store and office
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