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    Western Union Telegraph Building was a building at Dey Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. The Western Union...
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    Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company in Rochester, New York, the company changed its name to the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1856 after merging...
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    the Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Company, competing against financier Jay Gould, the robber baron of the Western Union. They operated over 400 offices...
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    The Western Union Telegraph Building in Kansas City, Missouri, is a former telecommunications building from 1920. It was listed on the National Register...
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    as the world's largest telegraph building upon its opening and served as the combined headquarters for all of Western Union's divisions, which were scattered...
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    by The Western Union Company for its new corporate headquarters, the Western Union Telegraph Building. Designed by George B. Post, the building was one...
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  • Orleans. In 1851, Hiram Sibley formed the Western Union Telegraph Company. It acquired local and regional telegraph companies, and soon became the largest...
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    195 Broadway, also known as the Telephone Building, Telegraph Building, or Western Union Building, is an early skyscraper on Broadway in the Financial...
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  • Arizona and Utah. In Western Union, Scott plays a reformed outlaw who tries to make good by joining the team building a telegraph line across the Great...
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    Henry Janeway Hardenbergh (category Henry Janeway Hardenbergh buildings)
    Upper West Side, in New York City (NYC landmark) 1882–1884: Western Union Telegraph Building, located at 186 Fifth Avenue at 23rd Street in Manhattan, New...
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    One World Trade Center (category Daniel Libeskind buildings)
    Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the...
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    twelfth stories, and two windows per floor above. The western facade, treated as the rear of the building, is a plain brick wall with windows. There was a...
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    skyscrapers, as well as the New York Stock Exchange Building, the Federal Hall and 1 Wall Street at its western end. The street is near multiple New York City...
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    2 World Trade Center (category Bjarke Ingels buildings)
    1973, 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) became the second tallest building in the World – behind its twin, 1 World Trade Center. The South Tower's...
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    could not be rented. His Western Union Telegraph Building (1872–75) at Dey Street in Lower Manhattan, was the first office building to rise as high as ten...
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  • illegally dropped the sculpture outside of the New York Stock Exchange Building. After being removed by the New York City Police Department later that...
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    Images- German American Insurance Building". "New York Architecture Images- Union Trust Building". "Commercial Cable Building - the Skyscraper Center". "New...
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    Westfield World Trade Center (category Buildings and structures destroyed in the September 11 attacks)
    Street] Uptown 1 and 9 station when there was an enormous explosion. The building shook. I heard people say, 'Oh, no.' Some, not many, were screaming. ....
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    telegraph networks in the United States prior to its consolidation with Western Union in 1943. Postal partnered with Commercial Cable Company for overseas...
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    (also known as the Irving Trust Company Building, the Bank of New York Building, and the BNY Mellon Building) is a mostly residential skyscraper in the...
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    with the Equitable Life Building and the Western Union Telegraph Building. The Tribune and Western Union Telegraph Buildings are variously cited as being...
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    23 Wall Street (also known as the J.P. Morgan Building) is a four-story office building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City, at the...
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    stories. The other buildings were the Western Union Building at 60 Hudson Street and the AT&T Long Distance Building at 32 Avenue of the Americas. "National...
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    World Trade Center station (PATH) (category Buildings and structures destroyed in the September 11 attacks)
    World Trade Center complex was being rebuilt. Work on a permanent station building commenced in 2008. The main station house, the Oculus, opened on March...
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    architectural feel with many buildings dating back to the Gilded Age or shortly thereafter. The early 19th-century buildings on the south side of the easternmost...
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    St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church (Manhattan) (category Buildings and structures destroyed in the September 11 attacks)
    during the September 11 attacks in 2001—the only house of worship, and only building outside the original World Trade Center complex, to be completely destroyed...
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    the Flatiron Building, at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, is Henry J. Hardenbergh's Western Union Telegraph Building, one of the...
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    on the church's grounds as King's College in 1754. The current church building is the third to be constructed for the parish, and was designed by Richard...
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    Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
    New York", Western Union Technical Review, April 1959: 45 "The End of The Telegraph Era". Britannica. Downey, Gregory J. (2002) Telegraph Messenger Boys:...
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    "ball drop" was directly inspired by a time ball atop the Western Union Telegraph Building in lower Manhattan. By then, Times Square had become a popular...
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