Which was completed first, Manhattan Life Insurance Building or the Singer Building?
Manhattan Life Insurance Building
Singer Building
The Singer Building or Singer Tower, at Liberty Street and Broadway in Lower Manhattan's Financial District, in the U.S. state of New York, was a 47-story office building completed in 1908 as the headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company.
 It was the tallest building in the world from 1908 to 1909.
 It was torn down in 1968, together with the adjacent City Investing Building, and is now the site of One Liberty Plaza.
 When it was razed, it became the tallest building ever to be demolished, and is still the third-tallest building ever to be destroyed (after the World Trade Center towers) and the tallest to be purposely demolished by its owner.
Manhattan Life Insurance Building
The Manhattan Life Insurance Building was a 348 ft tower at 64-66 Broadway in New York City completed in 1894 to the designs of the architects of Kimball & Thompson and slightly extended north in 1904 making its new address 64-70 Broadway.
 It was the first skyscraper to pass 100 m in Manhattan.
Francis H. Kimball
Francis Hatch Kimball (1845–1919) was an American architect practicing in New York City, best known for his work on skyscrapers in lower Manhattan and terra-cotta ornamentation.
 He was an associate with the firm Kimball & Thompson.
 His work includes the Empire Building, Manhattan Life Insurance Building, and Casino Theatre (Broadway).
 All but one of Kimball's work was in the United States. Supreme Life Building
The Supreme Life Building is a historic insurance building located at 3501 S. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois.
 Built in 1921, the building served as the headquarters of the Supreme Life Insurance Company, which was founded two years earlier.
 The company, originally known as the Liberty Life Insurance Company, was the first African-American owned insurance company in the northern United States.
 Since white-owned insurance firms regularly denied black customers life insurance when the firm was founded, the firm played an important role in providing life insurance to Chicago's African-American community.
 The company ultimately became the largest African-American owned business in the northern states and became a symbol of the predominantly black Bronzeville neighborhood's economic success from the 1920s to the 1950s. Asia Insurance Building
The former Asia Insurance Building () is a high-rise building formerly for commercial use, located on Finlayson Green near Raffles Place, in Singapore's Downtown Core.
 The Asia Insurance Building was also known as the A.I. Building, but was renamed to Ascott Raffles Place after the Ascott Group (a division of CapitaLand) completed its redevelopment of the building into a serviced apartment residence in November 2008. Canadian Pacific Plaza
Canadian Pacific Plaza is a 383-ft (117 m) tall skyscraper in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 It was completed in 1960 and has 28 floors.
 It is the 21st-tallest building in the city.
 It is the first major post-World War II skyscraper built in Minneapolis.
 It is also the city's tallest building completed in the 1960s.
 The New York Life Insurance Building was demolished to make way for this building.
 A skyway connects the building to the Rand Tower, Soo Line Building, and US Bank Plaza. New York Life Insurance Building (Montreal)
Montreal's New York Life Insurance Building (also known as the Quebec Bank Building) is an office building at Place d'Armes in what is now known as Old Montreal, erected in 1887-1889.
 At the time of its completion, it was the tallest commercial building in Montreal with the first eight floors were designed for retail office space, that quickly filled with the city's best lawyers and financiers.
 When the clock tower was completed, the owner filled the ninth and tenth floors with the largest legal library in the entire country as a gift to tenants.
 The building is next to another historic office tower, Aldred Building. Whole life insurance
Whole life insurance, or whole of life assurance (in the Commonwealth of Nations), sometimes called "straight life" or "ordinary life," is a life insurance policy which is guaranteed to remain in force for the insured's entire lifetime, provided required premiums are paid, or to the maturity date.
 As a life insurance policy it represents a contract between the insured and insurer that as long as the contract terms are met, the insurer will pay the death benefit of the policy to the policy's beneficiaries when the insured dies.
 Because whole life policies are guaranteed to remain in force as long as the required premiums are paid, the premiums are typically much higher than those of term life insurance where the premium is fixed only for a limited term.
 Whole life premiums are fixed, based on the age of issue, and usually do not increase with age.
 The insured party normally pays premiums until death, except for limited pay policies which may be paid-up in 10 years, 20 years, or at age 65.
 Whole life insurance belongs to the cash value category of life insurance, which also includes universal life, variable life, and endowment policies. New York Life Building
The New York Life Insurance Building, New York, located at 51 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, across from Madison Square Park, is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company. Manhattan Life Insurance Company
Manhattan Life Insurance Company, incorporated on May 29, 1850, is a life insurance company domiciled in New York but operates as a subsidiary of Manhattan Life Group in Houston, Texas.