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Metropolitan life insurance tower

Metropolitan life insurance tower, New York
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Quick Facts
City  New York
Country  USA
Year  1909
Height  213,0m / 699ft
Floors  51
Realisation
Architect  Napoleon Le Brun & Sons (Pierre Lebrun)
Developer  John Rogers Hegemann
Building Info
Name  Metropolitan life insurance tower
Category  Office Building
Materials  steel
limestone
Address  1 Madison Ave.
Notes
Highest building in the world 1909-1913.
Renovated in 1964, when the marble cladding was replaced by limestone.
Built after the campanile of St'. Mark's in Venice.
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