3D print the Spingler Building
A free, printable model of the Spingler Building and the tall buildings, streets and park around it near Union Square, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 13 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
13 mm tall on a 160 mm print
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.
- Fine facade ornament
Ornament this fine shrinks quickly at print scale. Print friendly adapts it to the print scale; Full detail keeps more of it on a larger print.
- Crisp edges on tall walls
A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps fine vertical detail crisp, and printing slowly helps the upper floors.
- One piece with the ground
The Spingler 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 Spingler 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 the Spingler Building
On Manhattan's Union Square West stands the Spingler Building, also known as 5 Union Square West. This Romanesque building has eight stories, and its address is 5-9 Union Square West, on the block from 14th to 15th Streets. William H. Hume & Son built it in 1897, and it succeeded an earlier five-story building, also called the Spingler Building, lost to a fire in 1892. The lot is L-shaped, wraps around 15 Union Square West on the north side, while the Lincoln Building adjoins it on the south side.
The land was first a 45-acre grant from the Dutch colonial era, issued to Simon Congo, who was a free Black man, by the colonial director Willem Kieft. Founded in 1843, the Spingler Institute for Young Ladies later occupied the site; from 1848 to about 1861 the institute stood at number 5 on Union Square West. The Spingler Hotel then took over, running from 1864 until about 1878. The first Spingler Building was a five-story commercial and loft structure, finished in 1878, costing $115,000, and it was home to the Brentano's book store.
The firm of James L. Libby & Son leased the site on July 17, 1895, and planned an eight-story building of limestone, brick and terracotta, designed by William H. Hume & Son. It was finished sometime before March 1897. The building suited stores, showrooms, manufacturing and industrial lofts, and it catered in particular to the growing garment trade around Union Square. Its facade has a base, a shaft and a capital, like the parts of a column: a two-story limestone base, a five-story brick shaft with terracotta detailing, and a one-story terracotta capital.
About this model
The Spingler Building is one of more than 4,300 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.
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