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[65] [66] [67] The Manhattan Company was headquartered at a row house at 40 Wall Street, [45] [47] which was the company's "office of discount and deposit". [65] The bank remained on the site until the present skyscraper was constructed. [68] By the early 20th century, the company was growing quickly, having acquired numerous other banks. [65 ...
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The Octagon House, also known as the Colonel John Tayloe III House, is a house located at 1799 New York Avenue, Northwest in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was built in 1799 for John Tayloe III , the wealthiest planter in the country, at the behest of his new family member, George Washington .
In 2010, the United States Congress passed legislation designating the Main Interior Building in Washington as the "Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building.", in honor of his contributions. The bill was signed into law on 8 June 2010. [4] Stewart Lee Udall served as Secretary of the Interior for eight years (1961–1969). Stewart ...
[36] [g] The 40 Wall Street tower was revised, in April 1929, from 840 feet (260 m) to 925 feet (282 m) making it the world's tallest. [185] The Chrysler Building added its 185-foot (56 m) steel tip to its roof in October 1929, thus bringing it to a height of 1,046 feet (319 m) and greatly exceeding the height of 40 Wall Street. [31]
His design for another Childs location at 2 Massachusetts Ave. NW in Washington, DC, completed in 1926, was very different. A single-story stone structure on a small triangular plot near Union Station, it featured large arched windows. Though Childs vacated both structures in the 1950s, they were extant and in use in 2014, the Manhattan ...
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Somerset House is one of six apartment buildings that White designed in this area of 16th Street, the others being The Saint Mihiel (1712 16th Street NW, built 1920), The Ambassador (1750 16th Street NW, built 1920), The Lealand (1830 16th Street NW; built 1914), The Howard (1842 16th Street NW, built 1913), and The Tiffany (1925 16th Street NW ...