The destruction of the #EastWing is the worst US historical loss to a “planned” demolition since the #SingerBuilding. This did not go through regular channels and is not doing best practices for work on or near a historic building. Anyone telling you otherwise is ignorant or lying. #whitehouse

‘In 1914 a wealthy patron supported Jonas Lie’s travel to Panama to document the construction of the new Panama Canal, which, like the island of Manhattan, was a symbol of America’s industrial might and global power. Upon his return, Lie viewed the city with eyes transformed — his city canyons and flowing rivers becoming what one critic called “vital forceful constructions.” Path of Gold, with its strong diagonal river, framed on one side by the hills of Brooklyn, and on the other by the mountainous skyline of Manhattan, has strong correspondences to Lie’s Culebra Slide (West Point Museum), which depicts an artificial valley that cuts through the continental divide to form part of the Panama Canal. Both paintings were included in a December 1914 exhibition

#OTD in 1883
A wonder of the modern world, the Brooklyn Bridge, opens. May 24, 1883
‘Path of Gold’ Jonas Lie (1880-1940)
Oil on canvas. Ca. 1914.
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#BrooklynBridge #JonasLie #AmericanArt #IndustrialSublime #Manhattan #SingerBuilding

‘Interior architecture of west end of main corridor of the Singer Building, with marble columns. The bronze-cased Master Clock is seen on the stairs’
The Singer Building was demolished in 1968.
#skyscrapers #architecture #SingerBuilding

Singer Tower, 149 Broadway - 1967
Photograph by Jack E. Boucher
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#SingerBuilding - 1909
#LowerManhattan 149 #Broadway
Behind, the City Investment Building; left, the Washington Life Building
Photograph by Irving Underhill (1872-1960)

‘Singer Building (in constr.) New York’
Picture postcard circulated in May 1908, the month of the building’s completion.
#skyscrapers #architecture #SingerBuilding #LowerManhattan