Headquarters
The Consolidated Edison Company Building, designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, was built between 1910 and 1914. The building, at 4 Irving Place, takes up the entire block between East 14th and 15th Streets and Irving Place and Third Avenue, and was originally built for the Consolidated Gas Company, although its predecessor companies, such as the Manhattan Gas Light Company, were located at the same address as early as 1854. The new building's location had been the site of the Academy of Music, New York's third opera house, as well as the original Tammany Hall building.
Warren & Wetmore's 26-story tower – topped by a "Tower of Light" designed to look like a miniature temple and capped by a bronze lantern which lights up at night – was added between 1926 and 1929.
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Famous quotes containing the word headquarters:
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—For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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—Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900–1980)