Lost New York City: New York Herald Building

1895-1921
The New York Herald was the most popular newspaper in the country in 1845. In 1893, Stanford White of McKim Meade and White, was commissioned to build these headquarters with its circular lobby and rooftop of angels at the northern triangle where Broadway slashes across 6th Avenue, giving this plaza its new and forever name--Herald Square. Eventually, the Sixth Avenue elevated train line would rattle right past its eastern flank, hiding much of the grace and splendor of this building, a building that lent perfect harmony and proportion to this odd tract of land, much like the city that seems to turn chaos into order wherever one looks. Topped with a magnificent clock tower called 'Heralding Time,' depicting Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom and two bronze bell-ringers who swivel at the hips and strike the bell upon the hour, the building was sadly razed in 1921, as The Herald had merged with Horace Greeley's The Tribune and needed larger accommodation. Luckily, they saved the bell. And in the middle of Herald Square, right across from the R.H. Macy Emporium, one can still watch "Ogg' and 'Gogg,' as the are called, ring away to this day.day.