Buildings on West Side Broadway, from Barclay St to Park Pl - 1910
Buildings on Broadway between Barclay Street (left) and Park Place (right). Al these buildings were razed in 1910 to make way for the Woolworth Building. Its construction began the same year and it was completed in 1913. It was the tallest building in the world until 1930.
Photograph published in 1910 in the book Both Sides of Broadway from Bowling Green to Central Park. Original title: Broadway, Barclay Street to Park Place - The Hub, Clothing - Beekman Café - S. Hoffman, Merchant Tailor - The Harris Store, Clothing and Furnishing Goods - Kaufman, Hatter, Hatter - Henry Bischoff & Co., Bankers.
Site of the old American Hotel destroyed in 1866.
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Buildings on West Side Broadway, from Barclay St to Park Pl - 1910