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Old Town Hall - SAH ARCHIPEDIA Atop the brick, five-bay, Federal-style edifice with stone stringcourse, panels, and central pediment, a rooftop walkway looked to the river; a tall cupola made the building the most prominent in town for half a century Quaker miller Joseph Tatnall donated the English-made clock and bells
BRICK - architecture-history. org Even load-bearing brick buildings remained influential well into the 20th century, acting as a kind of conservative moral datum of “honest” construction (what the brick really “wanted to be”) opposed to some, but not all, modern tendencies
Notes on Manhattan Bricks - The Gotham Center for New York City History That’s a lot of bricks, even more than the raw building counts would suggest, for along the way to its peak of over 100,000 buildings, Manhattan saw the demolition of tens of thousands of older buildings dating from before the Civil War
Some interesting historical context on construction costs: 100 years . . . 100 years ago the cost of construction was about $45 sqft when adjusted for inflation and today it is closer to $220 sqft, approximately 5x the cost Blue collar wedges are pretty similar across time, but the cost of house construction (ignoring land) is dramatically higher
1910s - The Architectural Review Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed In their fearless storytelling, independent critical voices explore the forces that shape the homes, cities and places we inhabit
1910-1920 - ARCHITECTURE THROUGH the decades - Weebly Also the sheer size of the new world-famous Woolworth Building would spark and architectural race to see how high we could build With the opening of the Panama Canal trading directly between the Atlantic and Pacific was finally possible, further strengthening the bonds holding the world together
Basic Facts About City Hall The Flemish Renaissance inspired building required eight million bricks, weighs approximately 41,000 tons, has more than 47,000 sq feet of mosaic and marble flooring, and features approximately 107,000 sq feet of office and meeting space
Cranbrook History: Marking 110 years since City Hall’s construction Early in 1911, 125,000 bricks were commissioned from the Cranbrook Brick Company to start the building’s construction The contract was fulfilled and the bricks were placed at the site of the future City Hall in May of 1911