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What an incredible building. It looks like a film set, not an actual structure .

This was the City Hall Post Office, originally between Broadway and Park Row in New York City. Its architect was A.B. Mullett. Built in 1878, it was maligned in its time as "Mullett's Monstrosity," and demolished in 1939. Roads and part of City Hall's park stand there today. The Municipal Building (which is still around) is shown under construction in the background.

Mullett also designed the Old (Eisenhower) Executive Office Building in D.C., which looks very similar:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Executive_Office_Building

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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Traditional Skyscrapers, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

ESPN, 1913 style.

Franklin and Greeley statues: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm...

Looking at an enhanced version of this, the people are watching a scoreboard being updated with the plays shown on a baseball diamond sign. The game is between the Brooklyn Superbas (Dodgers) and the New York Giants. There is no score in the bottom of the third inning. It should be possible to date this picture by box scores. Something about the scoreboard they are watching: "The Evening Sun's electric scoreboard on which a ball is moved automatically about the diamond enables thousand of fans to follow every detail of the day's game." Pathe's Weekly, July 24, 1913 books.google.com/books?id=3Ew_AAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA558&... Before the advent of radio doomed them, these electric scoreboards attracted huge crowds in New York and elsewhere.

A date of 1912 was set by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, according to the notes above. However, with some enhancement the teams' rosters are legible, and the lineups match a game played at the Polo Grounds between the teams on June 24, 1913. The negative has a 1913 date written on it, though that is not dispositive. Casey Stengel, on the scoreboard lineup, did not make his major league debut until September 17, 1912, and the Giants did not play the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds after September 9 that season. Placement of the Brooklyn lineup on the left and the Giants on the right typically meant the game was played at the Giants' field. This is therefore the game of June 24, 1913 which Eddie Stack started for Brooklyn. He only lasted 3 innings, so this picture was taken early in the game. Stack was traded to the Cubs on August 5, 1913. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60914FF3E5B1373... www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1912-schedule-scores... www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BRO/1913-schedule-scores... www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stacked01.shtml www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stengca01.shtml

Another 1913 baseball crowd:
collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/d/e/a/7/M2Y9199.jpg

Pictured is Nassau Street, as it ends on Park Row. Here is a photo of the Tribune and Sun buildings circa 1885
collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/4/b/1/9/MNY216908.jpg
And an aerial view from 1916, showing City Hall, the Globe, Sun, Tribune and Times buildings.
collections.mcny.org/Doc/MNY/Media/TR3/1/b/6/0/MNY217221.jpg
By 1916, the 5 story Sun Building had been replaced by a three story building:

New York's Citizen's Preparedness Parade of May 13, 1916, in which 135,000 marched. The parade began around City Hall, moved uptown to where there was a reviewing stand in Madison Square, then up to around 57th Street. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A15FD3F5D1773...

The neighborhood has changed a bit: goo.gl/maps/c1G21

Really, perhaps just the original New York Times building, in back of the Franklin statue, is all that's left. I think the group in silk hats and cutaways in this picture and in one nearby is the "Mayor's Escort", which was made up of one representative of each of the 74 trade groups that marched that day. Presumably, the carriage behind them is the one with Mayor Mitchel and Col. Barbour, also seen in another picture. select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B11FD3A5B1773...

grace!