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5 days ago · Its architects, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates, designed a building that would surpass 100 stories. Construction began 200 days later on March 17, 1930. Between the time that Smith made the announcement in August and construction began in March, however, the stock market crashed, in October of 1929, and the Great Depression began ...
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3 days ago · The Empire State Building, which stands as New York’s seventh tallest building, is an Art Deco masterpiece designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and rises 1,250 feet high. Completed in 1931, this landmark showed off its distinctive stepped shape combined with a simple, elegant limestone façade.
3 days ago · The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and it began its life as housing for sailors before being converted in the 1970s into a jail which held a maximum of 323 women, which represented approximately half of New York State's female prison population.
5 days ago · New York City’s Rockefeller Center (especially its interiors supervised by Donald Deskey; built between 1929 and 1940), the Chrysler Building by William Van Alen, and the Empire State Building by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon are the most monumental embodiments of Art Deco.
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4 days ago · The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, the architects most famous for designing the Empire State Building. Mutual of New York, or MONY after it demutualized, was founded in 1843 and...
3 days ago · In 1950, Mutual of New York built a 26-story building on the east side of Broadway, between 55th and 56th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, for its corporate headquarters and hired Shreve, Lamb and Harmon to design it.
1 day ago · Designed by William F. Lamb, of architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, the original idea was for a 50-story office building. You may also like: Weird and wonderful facts about your body .
