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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually the Waldorf-Astoria, as it now stands, is two buildings. The first was erected by William Waldorf Astor, famed in real-estate deals of the last century, on the site of his residence at 33rd Street & Fifth Avenue. He planned to spend the rest of his life in England, and wanted to leave a great hotel as memorial. The Hotel Waldorf was the result...
...Waldorf-Astoria, the hotel was taken over by Waldorf-Astoria, Inc., of which General T. Coleman du Pont was a director. It is this corporation which last week sold the property to the Bethlehem Engineering Corp. The new owners stated that they would erect, on the Waldorf-Astoria site, a 50-story office building...
...spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with light. President Darwin Pearl Kingsley...
...Niagara of the South," the falls are not Kentucky's or the South's greatest.*But they are famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky to get a Federal power licence, promising in return a 6,000-acre State...
Grain. Forty-four years ago Chicagoans took pride in their new Board of Trade Building at Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street. Antiquated, this building was last week abandoned, to be replaced by a $20,000,000 building on the same site. Centre of grain trading for 44 years, the old building has seen trading in eleven billion bushels of "cash" grain, amounting to 6,000,000 full freight cars. Here P. D. Armour, Joseph Leiter, James A. Patten and many another operator became famous. Here Arthur Cutten, prominent in Wall Street's late bull market, took the title...