| 1889/00/00 |
Joseph Fairchild Knapp |
Work |
In need of more space, J F Knapp selects Madison Avenue between 23rd and 24th Streets as the site for a new seven-story, white marble, Second Renaissance Revival office building (lost) designed by Napoleon Le Brun. |
|
|
|
| 1893/00/00 |
Napoleon LeBrun and Sons |
Architect |
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company occupies the first building (lost) completed, NE corner of 23rd St and Madison Ave. |
|
|
|
| 1893/00/00 |
Metropolitan Life |
Office |
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company occupies the first building (lost) completed, NE corner of 23rd St and Madison Ave. |
|
|
|
| 1905/00/00 |
Metropolitan Life |
Office |
Metropolitan Life buys a corner lot at 24th St and Madison Ave and plans to build a 560-foot tall tower designed by Napoleon LeBrun and Sons. |
|
|
|
| 1907/00/00 |
Pierre LeBrun |
Architect |
Designed by Pierre and Michel Le Brun and patterned after the bell tower of St Mark's Cathedral in Venice, construction begins on the 50-story Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower in New York City. |
|
|
|
| 1909/00/00 |
Metropolitan Life |
History |
Metropolitan introducing a $5,000 minimum whole life policy for exceptionally good risks proves "to be the outstanding life insurance innovation of the decade." - Marquis James, The Metropolitan Life |
|
|
|
| 1909/00/00 |
Michel Moracin LeBrun |
Architect |
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower is completed, topping out at 700-feet tall, with a beacon, gigantic four-dial clock and monstrous McNeely bells. |
|
|
|
| 1909/00/00 |
Meneely Bell Foundry of Troy, NY |
Foundry |
Four McNeely bells, which ranged in weight from 1,500 to 7,000 pounds, are installed in the 46th story of the Metropolitan tower. They sounded every quarter hour. |
|
|
|
| 1912/00/00 |
Metropolitan Life |
History |
At Metropolitan, Dr Lee K Frankel, a sociologist, and Dr Louis I Dublin, a mathematician, develop, with Lillian Wald, the Nation's first visiting nurse service. In many major cities it provides the only medical care that poorer policyholders can get. |
|
|
|
| 1932/00/00 |
|
|
Beginning in 1932 and continuing over a period of 20 years, Metropolitan erects in sections, according to need, a second Madison Avenue complex- a 31-story modern office building that ultimately filled the adjouning block between 24th and 25th Streets. |
|
|
|
| 1939/00/00 |
Metropolitan Life |
History |
Beginning with Parkchester in the Bronx in 1938-39, Metropolitan life develops a number of low-cost housing complexes that eventually include Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan, Riverton in Harlem, and Parkmerced in San Francisco. |
|
|
|
| 1957/00/00 |
|
|
Metropolitan Life Home Office sections, except the Tower, are demolished and replaced, 1953-1957. |
|
|
|
| 1964/00/00 |
|
|
MetLife modernizes the Tower by removing marble quoining, arcades, brackets, balconies and other decorative features, 1960-1964 |
|
|
|
