Because Broadway is a true north – south route that parallels the Hudson River and preceded the grid that the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 imposed on the island, Broadway diagonally crosses Manhattan, its intersections with avenues marked by " squares " ( some merely triangular slivers of open space ) have induced some interesting architecture, such as the Flatiron Building.

At Madison Square, location of the Flatiron Building, Broadway crosses Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street.

He also designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D. C.

The strip contained a number of references to contemporary events, such as the 1904 election of Theodore Roosevelt ; the recently built Flatiron Building ( 1902 ) and St. Regis Hotel ( 1904 ) in New York City ; and the 1904 – 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

Burnham's other works included overseeing the design for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and designing the 1902 Flatiron Building in New York City.

The Flatiron Building ( c. 1830 ), constructed as a business building in thriving 19th-century Brownsville, is one of the oldest, most intact iron commercial structures west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Throughout two decades, via private and public grants, BARC has restored the Flatiron Building as an historic asset to Brownsville.

The Flatiron Building Heritage Center, located within the building at 69 Market Street, holds artifacts from Brownsville's heyday, as well as displays about the community's important coal and coke heritage.

Image: Steichen flatiron. jpg | Edward Steichen, Flatiron Building, 1904

The Flatiron Building ( or Fuller Building, as it was originally called ) is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper.

The site on which the Flatiron Building would stand was bought in 1857 by Amos Eno, who would shortly build the Fifth Avenue Hotel on a site diagonally across from it.

The building, which would be the first skyscraper north of 14th Street, was to be named the Fuller Building after George A. Fuller, founder of the Fuller Company and " father of the skyscraper ", who had died two years earlier, but locals persisted on calling it " The Flatiron ", a name which has since been made official.

The Flatiron Building was designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham as a vertical Renaissance palazzo with Beaux-Arts styling.

Unlike New York's early skyscrapers, which took the form of towers arising from a lower, blockier mass, such as the contemporary Singer Building ( 1902 – 1908 ), the Flatiron Building epitomizes the Chicago school conception: like a classical Greek column, its facade – limestone at the bottom changing to glazed terra-cotta from the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in Tottenville, Staten Island as the floors rise – is divided into a base, shaft and capital.

Working drawings for the Flatiron Building, however, remain to be located, though renderings were published at the time of construction in American Architect and Architectural Record.

New York's Flatiron Building was not the first building of its triangular ground-plan: aside from a possibly unique triangular Roman temple built on a similarly constricted site in the city of Verulamium, Britannia, the Maryland Inn in Annapolis ( 1782 ), the Gooderham Building of Toronto ( 1892 ), and the English-American Building in Atlanta ( 1897 ) predate it.

The facade of the Flatiron Building was restored in 1991 by the firm of Hurley & Farinella.

The Flatiron Building has become an icon representative of New York City, but the critical response to it at the time was not completely positive, and what praise it garnered was often for the cleverness of the engineering involved.

But thanks to the steel bracing designed by engineer Corydon Purdy, which enabled the building to withstand four times the amount of windforce it could be expected to ever feel, there was no possibility that the wind would knock over the Flatiron Building.

They moved them back to the Flatiron in 1916, and left permanently for the Fuller Building on 57th Street in 1929.

After the end of World War I | World War I, the 165th Infantry Regiment passes through the Madison Square # Ceremonial arches | Victory Arch in Madison Square, with the Flatiron Building in the background ( 1919 ).

The Flatiron Crossing Mall is a large shopping and entertainment center, anchored by Nordstrom, Dick's Sporting Goods, Macy's, The Great Indoors and Best Buy.

To the north of Chelsea is the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, also known as " Clinton ," to the northeast is the Garment District, to the east are NoMad and the Flatiron District, to the southwest is the Meatpacking District and to the southeast is the West Village.

The neighborhood around it is called the Flatiron District after its signature building, which has become an icon of New York City.

As an icon of New York City, the Flatiron Building is a popular spot for tourist photographs, but it is also a functioning office building which is currently the headquarters of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck of Stuttgart, Germany, under the umbrella name of Macmillan, including St. Martin's Press, Tor / Forge, Picador and Henry Holt and Company.

The Flatiron ’ s interior is known for having its strangely-shaped offices with walls that cut through at an angle on their way to the skyscraper ’ s famous point.

The value of the 22-story Flatiron Building, which is already zoned by the city to allow it to become a hotel, is estimated to be $ 190 million.

Today, the Flatiron Building is frequently used on television commercials and documentaries as an easily recognizable symbol of the city, shown, for instance, in the opening credits of the Late Show with David Letterman or in scenes of New York City that are shown during scene transitions in the TV sitcoms Friends, Spin City, and Veronica's Closet.

In the 1998 film Godzilla, the Flatiron Building is accidentally destroyed by the US Army while in pursuit of Godzilla, and it is depicted as the headquarters of the Daily Bugle, for which Peter Parker is a freelance photographer, in the Spider-Man movies.

Tekserve is an American consumer electronics and information technology consulting business based in the Flatiron District, Manhattan, New York City.

Glacial ice that filled Mill Creek ( whose canyon is mostly post-glacial ), Blue Lake Canyon, Kings Creek Meadows, Flatiron Ridge, Warner Valley and the valley of Manzanita, Hat and Lost Creeks originated from there.

Some of the most interesting architecture in the city can be found in St. Lawrence, one notable landmark is the Flatiron building, known for its distinct narrow, wedge shape where Wellington St. merges with Front.

In October 1925, Harry S. Black, in need of cash for his U. S. Realty Company, sold the Flatiron Building to a syndicate set up by Lewis Rosenbaum, who also owned assorted other notable buildings around the U. S. The price was $ 2 million, which equaled Black's cost for buying the lot and erecting the Flatiron.

Flatiron Building may also refer to:

The Flatiron Mural by renowned Canadian artist Derek Michael Besant uses a trompe l ' oeil effect to not only make the wall appear to have more windows than it does, but to also give it a more mobile effect by having its edges ' fluttering ' away where they are not ' tacked ' down.

: The Fuller Building was also the original name of the Flatiron Building

Atlanta also has its own Flatiron Building, built in 1897, five years before the more famous Flatiron Building in New York City ( 1902 ).

Many businesses also use the word Flatirons or Flatiron in their names.

The building is now home to a bar ( appropriately named " Flatiron ") on the first level and a tattoo shop, 13 Roses, on the top floor.

The company raised about $ 250 million, including $ 28 million from a group of investors in 1999 which included Flatiron, Oak and Chase.

The company was headquartered in New York's Flatiron Building.