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(ARCHITECTURE.) Hunt, Richard Morris. Specifications of Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. Building. 8vo, plain blue cloth; tipped to the front blank is manuscript document by R. G. Moulton, Secretary of Building Committee charting the appraisement of rental value of office rooms in the new structure, dated 5 January 1874. The rear contains numerous tipped-in and loose floor plans on very brittle onion skin, marked in ink and colored pencil, folded, with separations and scattered chipping. New York: Evening Post Steam Presses, 1873
unique record of an early new york city architectural landmark. The Delaware & Hudson Canal Company founded one of the most important rail lines and canal routes in the Northeast, transporting coal from Pennsylvania to New York City. Its nine story headquarters, designed by Hunt and located on Cortland Street at the southeast corner of Church Street in lower Manhattan, was one of the first buildings that contributed substantially to the evolution of the skyscraper. This volume of specifications, likely printed for use of the firm and construction companies only, indicates the materials and immense detail of such a structure. Within the same five year period Hunt used similar methods for one of his best-known works, The Tribune Building, headquarters of Horace Greeley's newspaper. For a time the tallest edifice in the city after the spire of Trinity Church, it is considered by some to be the first skyscraper. See Stein, The Architecture of R. M. Hunt, Chicago, 1986; Baker. Richard Morris Hunt. Cambridge, 1980.
