Municipal Building, New York City, 1915

Subjects: City Halls & Courthouses Historic Towers Horses Street Scenes
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1915 (White Border)

Back of Municipal Building, New York City, 1915, c. 1915 lithograph postcard — Back

About this postcard

Color view of the Manhattan Municipal Building, a tall Beaux-Arts office tower with a statue on its crown, rising above a street with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, and neighboring buildings. The building faces City Hall Park at Park Row and Center Streets and was built to house offices for all city departments. The caption calls the tower statue "Miss Civic Pride," likely a garbling of Civic Fame, and gives the height as 34 stories and 580 feet, with foundations sunk on pneumatic caissons and a total cost of $13,000,000. Completed in 1914, the Municipal Building had just opened when this card was sent, and its scale made it a new civic landmark at the edge of lower Manhattan.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear Friend, I am spending a few weeks at 5-03 Main St., Greenport, L. I. New York. Bertha Pohl.

PublisherThe American Art Publishing Co.

Municipal Building, New York City. MUNICIPAL BUILDING, NEW YORK CITY. Municipal Building, facing City Hall Park at Park Row and Center Streets, contains offices for all the city departments and is the largest structure of its kind in the world. It is 34 stories, 580 feet high including a 30 foot statue of Miss Civic Pride on tower. Foundation consists of 116 pneumatic caissons sunk 260 feet below the street and 239 feet below water level. Total cost $13,000,000.

PostmarkedGREENPORT, NY

Addressed to

Mrs. Joseph. Hallworth

5-1a. Meridian St. Malden, MA

Postcard record

Postmarked	GREENPORT, NY
Publisher	The American Art Publishing Co.
Series	R-34349
Condition	Very good
Place addressed	Mrs. Joseph. Hallworth, 5-1a. Meridian St., Malden, MA
Place depicted	Municipal Building, New York, NY
Publisher	The American Art Publishing Co., New York, NY
Stamp	1c printed stamp box inscription (United States and Canada one cent; Foreign two cents)
Notes	Color lithograph; no white border visible. Postmark: GREENPORT N.Y. 9 7-PM 1915. Divided-back card; stamp removed (green residue in stamp box); small stain over 'Dear Friend' salutation. Front is a full-bleed color litho view of the Municipal Building, New York City.

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Municipal Building, New York City, 1915, postcard, c. 1915. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/municipal-building-new-york-city-1915. Accessed November 2, 2026.