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Historical Buildings in Financial District
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Historical Buildings in Financial District
The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624. Ever since then, New York City continued to grow into the metropolis that you see today. Explore the many buildings in the Financial District that date back centuries.
moreThe Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624. Ever since then, New York City continued to grow into the metropolis that you see today. Explore the many buildings in the Financial District that date back centuries.
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What they found were big, abandoned buildings strewn with rope, masts, planks, ships’ wheels, and sailcloth—the relics of a vanished industry.\""},{"type":"link","content":"https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-little-known-manhattan-neighborhood-where-agnes-martin-and-robert-indiana-made-art"}]},{"address":"26 Broadway","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":40.70537571366179,"longitude":-74.01325084999999},"media":[{"metadata":{"width":705,"height":900},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.3.jpg?alt=media&token=92e116ea-f97c-400c-8e86-972fa9c93798"},{"type":"text","content":"\"26 Broadway, also known as the Standard Oil Building or Socony–Vacuum Building, is an office building adjacent to Bowling Green in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. 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More than a century after its construction, it remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States.\""},{"metadata":{"width":1000,"height":667},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.6.jpg?alt=media&token=1d921dbc-b038-4447-85fb-4a14d3129243"},{"type":"text","content":"\"F. W. Woolworth, the founder of a brand of popular five-and-ten-cent stores, conceived the skyscraper as a headquarters for his company. Woolworth planned the skyscraper jointly with the Irving National Exchange Bank, which also agreed to use the structure as its headquarters. The Woolworth Building had originally been planned as a 12- to 16-story commercial building but underwent several revisions during its planning process. Its final height was not decided upon until January 1911. Construction started in 1910 and was completed two years later. 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The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624. Ever since then, New York City continued to grow into the metropolis that you see today. Explore the many buildings in the Financial District that date back centuries.
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Yet in the 1950s and ’60s, as Abstract Expressionism gave way to Minimalism, a small group of artists moved in.\""},{"metadata":{"width":1000,"height":1026},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.2.jpg?alt=media&token=15523983-1216-4cde-aeaa-e80c55947d0b"},{"type":"text","content":"\"The artists sought cheap housing, space, light, and, for many of them, an escape from the uptown art scene and the so-called 10th-Street style that was overtaking Greenwich Village. What they found were big, abandoned buildings strewn with rope, masts, planks, ships’ wheels, and sailcloth—the relics of a vanished industry.\""},{"type":"link","content":"https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-little-known-manhattan-neighborhood-where-agnes-martin-and-robert-indiana-made-art"}]},{"address":"26 Broadway","location":{"longitudeDelta":0.14321712068773834,"latitudeDelta":0.09219986310369421,"latitude":40.70537571366179,"longitude":-74.01325084999999},"media":[{"metadata":{"width":705,"height":900},"type":"img","version":1,"content":"https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/freeguides-prod.appspot.com/o/assets%2Ftours%2FlAF1l0W2oSYHOdFBxqdD%2F18.3.jpg?alt=media&token=92e116ea-f97c-400c-8e86-972fa9c93798"},{"type":"text","content":"\"26 Broadway, also known as the Standard Oil Building or Socony–Vacuum Building, is an office building adjacent to Bowling Green in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. 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