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...other project is for a building, probably at, least 63 stories high, on the plot adjacent to Mr. Adler's. It will be built for Henry L. Doherty & Co. as the first unit of a chain of skyscrapers. Unique features will include five entrances, escalators for the first seven floors, double-decked elevators of which the upper compartments will stop at odd floors, lower compartments at even ones...
Because of such projects real estate values in Manhattan fluctuate violently. Mr. Adler's block is now valued at $10,000,000 or over $300 per sq. ft. A few blocks away, at Wall St. and Broadway, a square foot is worth $600, while some plots in the district run to $800. No 1 Broadway is worth $200 per sq. ft., Broadway at 42nd $400, 42nd and Fifth Ave. $500. The land where the Chrysler Building stands is set at $250, while across Lexington Ave. the Hotel Commodore's real estate is estimated to be worth...
...small island in Lake Michigan, accessible to Chicago's Grant Park by a causeway, gathered last week Julius Rosenwald, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Rufus Dawes, Max Adler and many Chicago bigwig. In a squatty rainbow granite building which looked much like a giant derby hat resting on a pedestal, they sat down, craned their necks to watch the ceiling...
Chicago's planetarium is a gift from Max Adler, retired vice president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. The second one in the U. S. will be in Philadelphia, gift of Samuel S. Fels. Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History hopes to have the third. Germany, home of planetariums, has 15; Italy two; Russia, Sweden, Austria have one each...
...Zeiss company has several reasons for hoping that its instrument will reawaken interest in the subject. One: the Zeiss planetarium sells for $75,000. The building which houses the instrument costs much more. Chicago's cost Donor Adler about $600,000. The gift was prompted by the impression made upon him by a performance seen in Munich...