surprise building in leeds

Attended a wedding celebration at the Adelphi pub to notice that Leeds Bridge House bears looks a t little like the Flatiron Building in New York City, on a  modest scale. Both are wedge-shaped and built in  Italianate styles on triangular corner sites between busy thoroughfares. The Leeds version is Grade II listed and was completed in 1881, preceding the arrival of its sky-scraping Manhattan counterpart by twenty years. Was the American architect, Daniel Burnham, inspired by a  Yorkshire Building.