Woolworth Building
"The Woolworth Building"
Photograph
By: Cass Gilbert
Date: ca. 1913
Source: "Woolworth Building and City Hall Park, Manhattan." ca. 1913. Corbis. Image no. IH059708. Available online at http://pro.corbis.com (accessed January 27, 2003).
About the Architect: Cass Gilbert (1859–1934) worked as an architect's assistant and as a surveyor before earning an architectural degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then joined the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead and White in New York. In 1885, Gilbert and James Knox Taylor opened their own architectural firm in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1899, Gilbert moved back to New York, and about a decade later he designed his most famous building, the Woolworth Building. Gilbert's buildings were distinguished by their ornamental facades and grand interiors. He and his firm built...
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