For a year, it was the tallest building in the world at 612 feet, and a celebrated landmark for decades after that.īut not for too much longer. The lobby was said to have a “celestial radiance.” A book was written just about its construction.
From a wide base, a slender 27-story tower rose, topped by a mansard roof and a delicate lantern spire.Įvery inch dripped with sumptuous detail inside and out vaulted roofs, marble columns with bronze trim, window mullions with spiral fluting. In 1908, architect Ernest Flagg completed the Singer Building in Lower Manhattan, a Beaux-Arts showstopper made for the Singer sewing machine company. Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture