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Equitable fire from Singer Bldg. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Art Siegel said:

  "The Equitable Life Assurance Building was completed in 1870 at 120 Broadway in New York City, New York. At 130 feet (40 m), it is considered by some the world's first skyscraper and was the first office building to feature passenger elevators. The architects were Arthur Gilman and Edward H. Kendall, with George B. Post as a consulting engineer and hydraulic elevators made by the Elisha Otis company. The building was destroyed by a fire on January 9, 1912." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable_Life_Building_(New_York_C... "

• Art Siegel said:

  The note above identifying the building as in Brooklyn is incorrect. It was in Manhattan.

Frozen fire apparatus, Equitable fire (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• omasciarotte said:

  In January of 1912, a fire spread through the dumbwaiter elevator system of the Equitable Building in Brooklyn: www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Newspaper/Disasters/1912.Equ...

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thank you for helping us to more precisely date this image. We'll add the information to our source catalog.

• Richard Norton said:

  The building was in Manhattan. The ire was January 9, 1912 and reported in the newspapers the following day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equitable_Life_Building_(New_York_City)