PSFS: How America's first modernist skyscraper was saved...

[mixiboi]

How a Political Convention Helped Save America's First Modernist Skyscraper - Arts & Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities


Cool story...some things I didn't even know...

[ArcticSplash]

I got to sneak into the radio room up on the roof several years back.

Views are great up in there. I'm sure they sealed the doors by now but when I was living on 13th Street it was still possible to sneak up on to the roof without building security noticing.

[Jayfar]

I got to sneak into the radio room up on the roof several years back.

Views are great up in there. I'm sure they sealed the doors by now but when I was living on 13th Street it was still possible to sneak up on to the roof without building security noticing.

They likely tightened up considerably after that guy took a flying leap from a conference room window a few years ago.

[Jayfar]

By one account I had read somewhere, the PSFS sign, which was designed by the architects as an integral part of the building, marked the first common usage of a company's initials as its primary logo.

[CHIOSSO]

I worked restoring and resetting the stone in that building for two years