Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1909 — GOTHAM VIEWS PRESERVED [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOTHAM VIEWS PRESERVED

Photos Placed In Cornerstone of New $6,000,000 Municipal Building. New York, Dec. 28. —Without any formalities Mayor McClellan laid the cornerstone of the new $6,000,000 municipal building that is to extend

from Park row to Centre street and from Tryon row to Duane street, spanning Chambers street by an arch. The cornerstone is a four tons block of granite bearing the year In Roman numerals. It contains among other things twelve pictures of the city taken from the Singer and Metropolitan towers and a tower of the Manhattan bridge.

NEW YORK MUNICIPAL BUILDING.