3D print the Adams Express Building
A free, printable model of the Adams Express Building and the dense Financial District towers around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Adams Express Building
The Adams Express Building is found at 61 Broadway in Manhattan's Financial District, with more frontage along Trinity Place. The company hired architect Francis Kimball, who designed a tower of 32 stories for it. Work started in 1912, and on completion in 1914 only six structures in Manhattan stood taller.
The structure uses 3,300 tons of steel, and its terracotta ornament, of the architectural kind, covers more than a million square feet. The New York Times called the style "Florentine" on the lower floors, under the fifth, and "severely simple" higher up, while the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission classed the architecture as palazzo. Critics worried about its shadow, and one complaint cited a shadow of 875 feet. The 1916 Zoning Resolution later required setbacks, but construction had come before those rules.
The building lost 300 windows in the 1916 Black Tom explosion. In 1988, after Metropolitan Life Insurance Company bought it, an engineer found goldfish swimming in a pool beneath the basement heating system. An entrance from the building to the Wall Street subway station, built beneath Broadway, was later closed.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| 160 mm default | 37 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 47 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 60 mm | 1:2,344 |
-
North
-
East
-
South
-
West
- Dense window grid
- The facade is a tight grid of window bays. A layer height of 0.12-0.16 mm and a larger print size keep the grid readable; Print friendly simplifies the finest bays.
- One piece with the ground
- The Adams Express Building is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Adams Express Building takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Adams Express Building is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Adams Express Building STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Adams Express Building grows with the print: about 37 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
