Times Building, New York

The Times Building (now One Times Square), in Midtown Manhattan, was completed in 1904. Architects Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz and Andrew C. McKenzie turned for inspiration to Giotto's Campanile in Florence. Times Tower was second in height to the Park Row Building, but when considering the basement, it was the City's tallest structure from base to top. Publisher of this photograph: Detroit Publishing Co. 1908. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The newspaper headquarters moved to this building in January 1905 and left it in 1913, when it moved into the Times Annex at 229 West 43rd Street. In the 1960s its façade was entirely reclad and then served as a kiosk for billboards and video screens. More: Times Square looking south ►

Enlargement of the part of Broadway of the photograph above, showing street scene. The old Rossmore Hotel, erected in 1876, and Broadway Theatre are on the right.