Broadway under the terracotta tower, then the cruciform lobby: gold mosaic vaults, marble, the gothic grilles, the works in the arcade bays.
The Woolworth Building opened in 1913 on Broadway across from City Hall Park. Cass Gilbert designed it in terracotta Gothic, 792 feet tall, the tallest building in the world until 1930. Frank Woolworth paid for it in cash. President Wilson lit its lights from the White House on opening night, and a preacher named it the Cathedral of Commerce. The lobby is vaulted in gold mosaic.
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The 792 foot terracotta gothic tower with its green copper crown, the cross shaped lobby with a barrel vault of Byzantine glass mosaic, veined marble walls, bronze gothic tracery, the mezzanine murals. Mood: gothic gold. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.