The
Manhattan Municipal Building is a
40-story building built to accommodate
increased governmental space demands
after the 1898 consolidation of New
York City into The Five Boroughs.
Construction began in 1909 and ended
in 1915, marking the end of the City
Beautiful movement in New York. Standing
580 feet (177 m) tall, its highest
point is the largest statue in Manhattan.
The architectural firm McKim, Mead
and White designed it to be the first
building to incorporate a New York
City Subway station into its base.
Enormously influential in the civic
construction of other American cities,
its modernized Roman architecture
served as the prototype for the Terminal
Tower in Cleveland, the Fisher Building
in Detroit, and the Wrigley Building
in Chicago.
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