Flatiron Building in Construction
Photograph taken on 1 March 1902 and published by the Detroit Publishing Company. The building was completed by September, the same year. Broadway is on the left and Fifth Avenue is on the right. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
In August 1902 the Fuller Company announced that the building would be officially named after George A. Fuller, who had died two years earlier. It was announced that the building would be ready for occupancy on October 1, 1902. More: Flatiron block before Flatiron Building ►
Enlargement of detail of the photograph.
141 Fifth Avenue, 15 stories, completed in 1897 at the southeast corner of 21st Street.
Enlargement of a car in the photo.
Enlargement of east side 5th Avenue.
Flatiron Building in Construction
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Broadway, west side, 20th to 23rd St. - 1899.
Enlargement of a street scene in the photo.
