NEW YORK’S CHANGING SKY-LINE
WOOLWORTH BUILDING eclipsed.
The new sixty-eight storey Chrysler building in New York City, destined to be the tallest inhabited structure in the world and which will rise on the north-east corner of Forty-second Street and Lexington Avenue, in New York City, is the latest private enterprise of Walter P. Chrysler. The enterprise is not connected with the Chrysler Motor Corporation. 'I he building will tower to a height of SOS feet, 10 feet greater than the famous Woolworth buildings l in New York. The completed building lease-hold estate have been appraised at 13,780,000 dollars. The ground floor of tlie structure will be occupied by shops and stores and the remaining floors to and including the sixty-fifth will .be devoted to offices. Two of the upper floors of the towe rwill contain a duplex apartment. Above this will come the three storey observation dome constructed of bronze and glass and culminating in tlie spire. There will be 33 elevators.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1929, Page 2
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162NEW YORK’S CHANGING SKY-LINE Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1929, Page 2
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