Germania Life Insurance Company Building (now Guardian Life Building), 50 Union Square East, Borough of Manhattan
Subtitle: built 1910-11 : architect, D'Oench & Yost, builder Charles T. Wills, Inc. : [report]
By: Landmarks Preservation Commission
Contributors: Koenigsberg, Lisa; D'Oench & Yost
Series: Designation list / Landmarks Preservation Commission -- 209
Publisher: The Commission
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 22
Subjects: Buildings; Skyscrapers; Eclecticism in architecture; Office buildings; Buildings, structures; Germania Life Insurance Company Building (New York, N.Y.); Guardian Life Insurance Company; Guardian Life Building (New York, N.Y.)
Notes: Report prepared by Lisa Koenigsberg.

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"Skyscraper ... [with] four-story mansard roof ... [which] tie the building's design to French architecture, both the Second Empire style and the modern French mode that dominated Parisian architecture of the 1890s"--Leaf 1.

Includes bibliography (leaves 19-22)