[timeline_event category=”News at the Time” title=”Novel Plans For Building. Modern Acropolis for Los Angeles?” layout=”true” images=”2563″]Los Angeles Times, July 13, 1902

“Plans have been prepared for the erection of an apartment building in Los Angeles upon a scale so much larger than any yet attempted to be almost monumental…The proposition is to build an eight-story, steel frame, concrete and glass fire proof structure with a basement and glass canopied roof…Those desiring to secure apartments must first be admitted into membership in a club… to be named ‘The Twentieth Century Club.’ Requirements for membership will be that the person is of good moral character, subject to no contagious or infectious diseases, not of negro or Chinese blood or descent… in case the person shall have children, he may deposit not less than $10 with the superintendent, which money may be available to make any repairs necessitated by the occupancy of apartment by children. The architects are Associated Architects and Engineers.”[/timeline_event]

[timeline_event category=”American Architecture” title=”Flatiron or Fuller Building in New York” layout=”true” images=”2566″]The Fuller Building at 175 Fifth Avenue in New York is completed in 1902. The Chicago architectural firm of Daniel H. Burnham & Company designs the 22-floor building as a speculative project. Burnham uses a steel frame, covered in a non-load-bearing limestone and terra cotta facade with a mixture of French and Italian Renaissance ornamentation. The building of copper-clad windows and pale-colored bricks is topped by a series of arches and columns with a heavy projected cornice and flat balustraded roof. The unusual design creates the illusion of a freestanding colossal column. The design and extensive use of steel in the construction causes a general “buzz” in New York.

Though officially called the Fuller Building, the building is renamed the Flatiron by the public because of its unusual shape. Burnham’s triangular shaped building is his solution to an awkward building site.[/timeline_event]