Tower Building photograph

Tower Building

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Destruction date 1914
Opened September 27, 1889
Architects Bradford Gilbert
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About Tower Building


The Tower Building was arguably New York City's first skyscraper, and the first building with a steel skeleton structure. Architect Bradford Gilbert filed plans for its construction on April 17, 1888, it was completed on September 27, 1889 and demolished beginning in 1913.

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