The Flatiron Building was developed as the headquarters of construction firm Fuller Company, which acquired the site from the Newhouse family in May 1901. The name "Flatiron" derives from its triangular shape, which recalls that of a cast-iron clothes iron. The building sits on a triangular block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and East 22nd Street-where the building's 87-foot (27 m) back end is located-with East 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. Dinkelberg, and known its early days as "Burnham's Folly", it was completed in 1902 and originally included 20 floors.
Designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick P. The Flatiron Building, originally the Fuller Building, is a triangular 22-story, 285-foot-tall (86.9 m) steel-framed landmarked building at 175 Fifth Avenue in the eponymous Flatiron District neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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