Manhattan Life Insurance Building

The Manhattan Life Insurance Building was a Template:Convert tower on Broadway in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City.

History

The original structure at 64–66 Broadway was completed in 1894 to the designs of the architects of Kimball & Thompson, and was slightly extended north in 1904 to 68–70 Broadway. It was the first skyscraper to pass Template:Convert in Manhattan.

The building was sold at least twice. In 1926, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company sold the building to Frederick Brown, who then re-sold it to the Manufacturer's Trust Company a few weeks later. Then, in 1928, Central Union Trust Company, whose headquarters were in adjacent structures to the north, bought 70 Broadway for an undisclosed sum, although the building was assessed at that time at $4 million.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Following the Central Union Trust Company's sale of the buildings to the north to the Irving Trust Company, which then built a new skyscraper at 1 Wall Street, Central Union Trust moved to the Manhattan Life Building<ref name="bde19280502">Template:Cite news</ref> and modified the structures at 60, 62, and 70 Broadway.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The building was demolished to make way for an annex to 1 Wall Street, completed in 1965. Sources vary about whether the year of demolition was 1963 or 1964.<ref name="emporis">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="structurae">Template:Structurae</ref><ref name="Korom">Template:Cite book "In 1936, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company relocated its offices to One-Hundred-Twenty West 57th Street in midtown Manhattan. Then, catastrophe arrived when the building was only 69 years old; in a 1963 act of utter desecration, the Manhattan Life Insurance Building was demolished."</ref>

See also

• List of skyscrapers
• List of early skyscrapers