The Woolworth Building is a Gothic Revival skyscraper at 233 Broadway in lower Manhattan, commissioned by the retail magnate Frank W. Woolworth and designed by the architect Cass Gilbert, completed in 1913. Rising 60 stories and clad in glazed terracotta ornamented with Gothic tracery, gargoyles and pinnacles, it became the tallest building in the world upon completion and held that title until 1930, and its lavish lobby is decorated with Byzantine-style mosaics and caricature sculptures of figures involved in the building's construction. Contemporaries nicknamed it the Cathedral of Commerce for the way its soaring vertical lines and church-like ornament dressed a purely commercial office tower in ecclesiastical form. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
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The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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Designed by Cass Gilbert in the Neo-Gothic style, the Woolworth Building was originally an office skyscraper.
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The building officially opened on April 24, 1913.
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a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway
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in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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Designed by Cass Gilbert in the Neo-Gothic style, the Woolworth Building was originally an office skyscraper. It was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1929, and it remains one of the United States' 100 tallest buildings as of 2024.
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Its facade is mostly clad with architectural terracotta, though the lower portions are limestone, and it features thousands of windows.
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Its facade is mostly clad with architectural terracotta, though the lower portions are limestone, and it features thousands of windows.
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The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States.
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