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195 Broadway is a 29-story building on Broadway in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It was the longtime headquarters of American Telephone and Telegraph, as well as Western Union for a time. It occupies an entire block on one side of Broadway, running from Dey Street to Fulton Street. It also has the address 15 Dey Street, well known as the site of one end of the first transcontinental telephone call. The same building, using the "195 Broadway" address, was the New York end of the first intercity Picturephone call in 1927〔(TV History ) ''Two-Way Television'' by Bell Laboratories at 195 Broadway〕 and of the first transatlantic telephone call, made to London, England, also in 1927.〔 195 Broadway is also known as the Telephone Building, Telegraph Building, or Western Union Building, due to its history. The building is still in use. ==Planning and construction== From 1885 to 1910, AT&T was headquartered at 125 Milk Street in Boston.〔Jarzmbek, Mark. ("Designing MIT: Bosworth's New Tech" ), UPNE, 2004, p. 161. Accessed October 13, 2004, via Google Books.〕 The building at 195 Broadway was constructed under the leadership of AT&T's president Theodore Newton Vail, who had taken the AT&T helm in 1907 and added the same title at Western Union in 1909 when that firm was purchased by AT&T. In 1912, Vail developed a two-phase plan for a 29-story headquarters building that would be constructed on Broadway on the block stretching from Dey Street to Fulton Street. The plan entailed constructing one wing on the Dey Street corner, followed by the second wing on the Fulton Street corner. The first portion of the building, the Dey Street wing completed in 1916, was an L-shaped structure at the corner of Dey Street and Broadway with an extension reaching Fulton Street.〔Gray, Christopher. ("Streetscapes/AT&T Headquarters at 195 Broadway; A Bellwether Building Where History Was Made" ), ''The New York Times'', April 23, 2000. Accessed October 13, 2008.〕 William W. Bosworth, the architect who designed the John D. Rockefeller estate at Kykuit, was commissioned to create the Fulton Street wing of the building. Bosworth's designed featured layers of gray granite columns in Doric and Ionic styles, and a lobby that included 43 oversized Doric columns made of marble. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「195 Broadway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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