Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — First Skyscraper to Go. [ARTICLE]

First Skyscraper to Go.

Commenting on the fact that the Tower building, located on lower Broadway, the first so-called skyscraper to be erected in New York city, is soon to be razed to make way for a more modern structure, a writer in a recent issue of the Times states: “There is something pathetic aa well as distinctly American in the fact that this building, though now only twenty-four years old and illustrating a method of construction. that still passes as new, should have been condemned to destruction on the ground that, owing to its antiquity, all its tenants have left it," it is noted that while the structure was but 120 feet high. It was the first tp receive the name of “skyschaper” in New York cfty.