THE TALLEST BUILDING.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4930, 25 January 1926, Page 4

THE TALLEST BUILDING.

e BIG NEW YORK STRUCTURE TO BE 800 FEET HIGH Work has begun on the tallest building in the world, 65 storeys, the Christian Mission building on Broadway, New York, which will be 800 feet high, or eight fec.t higher thaw the Woolworth Buildings. The new structure, which will contain an hotel, a church, a hospital, and a bank, being built by Ostar Conkle, a wealthy real estate operator, in gratitude for the recovery of his son Howard from illness. Howard is now studying to become a medical missiomyy.

Ten per cent, of the earnings of the structure will, be utilised to found and maintain a medical, missionary with a base on the shore of Victoria Nyanza, in Africa, The building, exclusive of the land value, will, cost 14,000‘,000 dollars, and a' special (Station of the newly constructed underground railway will be erected, so as netflly to fiil the transportation needs of applicants for accommodation-.

An undenominational church will be located on the main floor, which will also have a dining room of a capacity of 2000 persons. The hotel wifi have 45,000 rooms, in which drinking, smoking, and Sunday newspapers will be prohibited. Twelve roof gardens and a large hospital on the top floors, capable of handling all surgery cases, will: be other features of the building.