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If something’s simply impressive, why not present it simply? That’s the approach taken by an unnamed artist in this architectural portrait of New York’s Woolworth Building. At fifty-seven stories, the structure is one of the oldest—and one of the most famous—skyscrapers in NYC. Constructed in a neo-Gothic style by architect Cass Gilbert, the Woolworth building overtook the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower as the world's tallest building—at a height of 792 feet—and was labeled the “Cathedral of Commerce” by the Reverend S. Parkes Cadman during the opening ceremony on April 24, 1913. One hundred and eleven years after its construction on Broadway, the Woolworth is still one of the fifty tallest buildings in New York City. And it’s a pop culture touchstone as well, most especially in film, serving as the climactic setting in Disney’s “Enchanted” and demolished by a monster in “Cloverfield.” And on the small screen, the Woolworth Building is featured as the headquarters of Mode Magazine on ABC’s “Ugly Betty.”
literature: PAI-XCIII, 122