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Architecture Images- Gone / Demolished / Destroyed Merchants & Manufacturers Exchange Building |
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The Merchants & Manufacturers Exchange Building 1911 The Merchants & Manufacturers Exchange Building was planned as twin twelve story buildings at a cost of $,3500,000 each. It was built over a sunken railway, along forty sixth and forty eight streets and Lexington, by the New York Central Railroad and the New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Housing spaces for wholesale merchants, its ground floor was planned as a convention centre to rival Madison Square Garden, while a summer garden and restaurant was planned for the roof. |
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