Early Skyscrapers on Broadway, New York City

Early Skyscrapers on Broadway - 1878

Lower Broadway, looking south from near Liberty Street. The old Mutual Life Building, completed about 1872, with a clock tower, is on the left. Several of the early skyscrapers in New York City were erected on Lower Broadway. Engraving published in the New York Illustrated, 1878, by D. Appleton & Co.

• Lower Broadway in the Second Half of 19th Century ►

Early Skyscrapers on Broadway - 1878

The spire of Trinity Church is on the right. It was the tallest structure in New York City from 1846, when the temple was completed, until 1888, when it was surpassed by the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral.

The old Equitable Building , completed in 1870, is on the left, between Cedar and Pine streets. It was a huge granite structure, covering the entire block. It was destroyed by fire in 1912.

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