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Municipal Building New York City
Submitted by
Jil
Loewit
Photo from a postcard sent in 1917. The info on the back of postcard reads:
"The Municipal Building, facing City Hall Park at Park Row and Center Sts.,
contains offices for all the city departments and is the largest structure of
its kind in the world. It is 34 stories, 580 feet high, including a 30 foot
statue of Miss Civic Pride on tower. Foundation consists of 116 pneumatic
caissons sunk 260 feet below water level. Total cost $13,000,000."
Postcard drawn by Moses King for "H-H-T Co.".
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