East Side Fifth Avenue, New York City

Photo shows buildings on the east side 5th Avenue, looking south from 23rd Street, with Flatiron Building (left) under construction. This is a fragment of a larger photograph (see on the right), dated March 1, 1902, published by the Detroit Publishing Company. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The 15-story building at 141 Fifth Avenue, topped by a dome, was completed in 1897 at the southeast corner of 21st Street. Pach Brothers photographers studio is at 22nd Street.

Before Flatiron Building.