Flatiron Building

Designed by famous Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, and completed in 1902, Flatiron (originally Fuller) Building is one of the best known buildings in American architectural history. Burnham succeeded in using 19th century classical revival architectural style to decorate a 20th century engineering wonder. In lesser hands, it would have looked like a wedding cake on drugs.

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Photographing in New York City

The guy  in shorts and t-shirt gets off his rental bike, sets up a sturdy tripod and expensive camera, stands on the  coffee shop chair to get a higher vantage point and takes a photo looking north from Daniel Burnham’s Flatiron Building.

Only in Manhattan.

Daniel Burnham’s Washington,DC Post Office

Adjacent to Union Station, also by Burnham,the Post Office and its neighbor form two blocks of powerfully monumental Beaux Arts Buildings of the early 20th century. 1st photo:Post Office, now National Postal Museum (part of Smithsonian); 2nd photo: Union Station
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Daniel Burnham’s Reliance Office Building is now Burnham Hotel

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Daniel Burnham’s Union Station,Washington,DC more images

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