#metlifetower

Construction of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Building between October 1907 and July 1908. The final photograph shows the building completed in 1909, looking south on Madison Avenue with #MadisonSquareGarden in the distance. Designed by Napoleon LeBrun & Sons the Met Life tower was modeled after the Campanile in Venice. The original 11-story base, built as a headquarters for Metropolitan Life, opened in 1893 and the tower was added in 1909, making it the tallest building in the world until the #Woolworth opened in 1913. The #tower was clad in Tuchahoe marble with renaissance revival ornamentation, but in 1964 a renovation removed much of the #architectural details and covered the tower in limestone. In 2015 the #MetLifeTower was converted into the 273-room luxury New York Edition Hotel. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq5kh6cFwYP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=l2o0gakz3z5x

The Metropolitan Life Tower in #MadisonSquare was the tallest building in the world from 1909 to 1913 – before being surpassed by the #Woolworth – and had the highest elevators in the world. The highest elevator traveled 586 feet from the basement to the top of the tower at a speed of 600 feet per minute, the maximum permitted by the Department of Buildings in 1910. As seen in the image above, the heavy elevator motors were installed in the tight space at the tip of the tower above the elevators. #metlifetower #madisonsquarepark #skyscraper #architecture #archilovers #structuralengineering #otiselevators #buildingtechnology #architecturehistory #nomad #urbanism #nycurbanism (at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower)

1909 photograph looking south on Madison Avenue with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower and Madison Square Garden in the distance. Designed by Napoleon LeBrun & Sons the Met Life tower was modeled after the Campanile in Venice. The original 11-story base, built as a headquarters for Metropolitan Life, opened in 1893 and the tower was added in 1909, making it the tallest building in the world until the Woolworth opened in 1913. The tower was clad in Tuchahoe marble with renaissance revival ornamentation, but in 1964 a renovation removed much of the architectural details and covered the tower in limestone. In 2015 the #MetLifeTower was converted into the 273-room luxury New York Edition Hotel. (at Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower)

MetLife Tower, New York. #flatirondistrict #metlifetower #manhattan #newyorkcity #newyork #italianrenaissancerevival #architecture #moon (at Flatiron District, NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9X7gqVn79f/?igshid=l8sho1t0bkbr

From archives from last year the former World headquarters of Metropolitan Life Insurance located at 23rd Street in Manhattan directly east of Madison Square Park still referred to as the MetLife tower was in fact modeled after the St Mark's Campanile in Venice. MetLife had grown to become the largest and most successful insurance company in the United States by the early 1900’s. The company had leveraged the fact New York being the major port in the United States receiving European immigrants late in the nineteenth century by providing insurance to immigrant wage workers who had much to lose if they suffered injury or worse yet passed away on the job. MetLife had moved uptown to the 23rd Street location in 1893 when the original MetLife headquarters was built on this location. With the great growth at the turn of the twentieth century MetLife president John Rogers Hegeman in 1907 commissioned the architectural fim of Napoleon LeBrun and Sons to design a tower addition to be laid atop the northwest portion of the existing building. When the new 52-story marble MetLife tower open in 1909 it was the world’s tallest building and remained the tallest until it was surpassed three years later by Woolworth Building down on Park Row by City Hall. In this image on western face and the northern face the beautiful 4-story Italian Renaissance clocks can be seen and actually are on all four one on each side. Marriott Hotels in 2011 began a conversion of the MetLife tower into one of its boutique Edition line hotels which was great as it preserved its architecture, lobbies as part of the appeal. @bheventspace #bhportdev @nybucketlist #metlifetower @flatironny https://www.instagram.com/p/B5DpR9TJd36/?igshid=n603w4so5rxc

The Met Life Tower. #nyc #newyorknewyork #manhattan #tower #metlifetower #newyork #newyorkcity #city #urban #travel #travelphotography #instagram #instafollow #instagood (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3qlLb8pxyH/?igshid=1gkozxy4tpitb

As darkness takes over the former World headquarters of Metropolitan Life Insurance located at 23rd Street in Manhattan directly east of Madison Square Park still referred to as the MetLife tower was in fact modeled after the St Mark's Campanile in Venice. MetLife had grown to become the largest and most successful insurance company in the United States by the early 1900’s. The company had leveraged the fact New York being the major port in the United States receiving European immigrants late in the nineteenth century by providing insurance to immigrant wage workers who had much to lose if they suffered injury or worse yet passed away on the job. MetLife had moved uptown to the 23rd Street location in 1893 when the original MetLife headquarters was built on this location. With the great growth at the turn of the twentieth century MetLife president John Rogers Hegeman in 1907 commissioned the architectural fim of Napoleon LeBrun and Sons to design a tower addition to be laid atop the northwest portion of the existing building. When the new 52-story marble MetLife tower open in 1909 it was the world’s tallest building and remained the tallest until it was surpassed three years later by Woolworth Building down on Park Row by City Hall. @bheventspace #bhportdev @timeoutnewyork @nybucketlist @nycurbanism @flatironny @nycityworld @nycprimeshot #metlifetower https://www.instagram.com/p/BuoAUFLFamo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w489je71msu3

#MadisonSquarePark, a true urban park nestled in the heart of #Flatiron and #NoMad 🌳 The #MetLifeTower, with its landmark clock 🕑 the residential skyscrapers #MadisonSquareParkTower, and #OneMadison, which opened in 2013, rise over Madison Square Park 🌳 #instagood #fashion #friends #smile #instamood #amazing #instagram #style #iphoneonly #webstagram #funny #iphonesia #igdaily #NYC #streetphotography #lifestyle #architecture #awesome #instacool #newyork (at Madison Square Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpIn2SnBdlJ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cg7qipip6boi