Broadway @ Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street
Architect: Daniel Burnham
Date Constructed: 1903

This triangular building, designed to fit the wedge of land between Broadway and Fifth Avenue, was built with limestone cladding over a steel frame. At 286 feet tall, it was New York City’s first true skyscraper and the city’s tallest building until 1908. It follows the basic scheme of the Chicago–style skyscraper, with a bold façade on the three lower floors, similar window treatments throughout the main structure of the building, and a clearly articulated capitol at the top.