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Metropolitan Life Insurance Bldg.

1909

Metropolitan Life Tower

Metropolitan Life Insurance Bldg.

IMAGE DATE1909
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower ca. 1909.

New York boasts few campaniles, yet here, the architects arrived at the ingenious scheme of combining skyscraper offices, a commercial symbol ("The Light that Never Fails"), and a large office building into one structure. In 1908 it was the tallest building in New York, and the clock faces are larger than those of Big Ben in London.

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