Manhattan Municipal Building
McKim, Mead, and White
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Date
1909-1915Description
General view, from Brooklyn Heights; A 40-story building built to accommodate increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of The Five Boroughs. Construction began in 1909 and ended in 1915, marking the end of the City Beautiful movement in New York. McKim, Mead and White (lead architect, William M. Kendall), designed it to be the first building to incorporate a New York City Subway station into its base. Enormously influential in the civic construction of other American cities, its application of Beaux-Arts architecture served as the prototype. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/9/2010)
Subject
architecture, City planning, city government, Twentieth century, Beaux-Arts
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