Two more sets of photographs from my trip to New York City.
First some monuments and sites around Madison Square Park, including this photograph of Secretary of State William H. Seward, most famous for negotiating the purchase of Alaska. If not for this man, Sarah Palin might be a Russian. Just something to think about.
At the southwest corner of Madison Square sits the storied Flatiron Building. Completed in 1902, it is considered one of the first skyscrapers ever constructed. Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. Dinkelberg were the architects.
The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the Incomparable City That Arose with It, an interesting, well written account of the building's history by Alice Sparberg Alexiou, a descendant of one of the former owners, was published earlier this year.
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