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Featured Locales - Flatiron
Building
U.S. National Historic Landmark
The building, at 175 Fifth Avenue, sits on a triangular island
block at 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway, facing Madison
Square. Today the Flatiron is a popular spot for tourist photographs,
a National Historic Landmark since 1989, and a functioning
office building, currently home to several book publishers,
most of them under the umbrella of Holtzbrinck Publishers.
It was also used as the Daily Bugle building in the Spider-Man
films. The surrounding area of Manhattan is named the Flatiron
District for its signature building.
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The Flatiron Building was designed by Chicago's
Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-Arts style. Like
a classical Greek column, its limestone and
glazed terra-cotta façade is separated
into three parts horizontally. Since it was
one of the first buildings to use a steel
skeleton, the building could be constructed
to 285 feet (87 m), which would have been
very difficult with other construction methods
of that time.
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. These “point” offices
are the most coveted and feature amazing northern
views that look directly upon another famous
Manhattan landmark, the Empire State Building.
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