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60 Hudson Street, formerly known as the Western Union Building, is a 24-story telecommunications building in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.Built in 1928–1930, it was one of several Art Deco-style buildings designed by Ralph Thomas Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker for telecommunications in the early 20th century. 60 Hudson Street spans the entire block between ...
The Western Union Building was originally designed by architect George B. Post and opened as the headquarters of Western Union in 1875. [8] [9] The Western Union Building was designed in the Neo-Grec style with Beaux-Arts influences, [10] [11] although at the time of its construction, the style was characterized as French Renaissance. [11]
195 Broadway, also known as the Telephone Building, Telegraph Building, or Western Union Building, is an early skyscraper on Broadway in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The building was the longtime headquarters of AT&T Corp. and Western Union. It occupies the entire western side of Broadway from Dey to Fulton Streets.
Western Union began operations in Kansas City in 1865. [2] In 1915, the company started planning a new regional hub in the city and began construction in 1919. The facility opened in 1920. [3] Western Union continued its telecommunication operations in the building until the late 1970s. [4]
Western Union Telegraph Building, lithograph. The Western Union Company is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado.. Founded in 1851 as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, [3] the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging with several other telegraph ...
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Western Union Telegraph Building, Kansas City, Missouri This page was last edited on 10 October 2020, at 21:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The northeast corner of the structure houses a building within a building. On the site is the main Western Union building and when relocation of the telegraph cables proved unfeasible, a new structure was built over the site and the existing structure was incorporated into the new building intact. The stone used for the exterior is red Swedish ...