Word: skyscraperism
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The Equitable Building, largest skyscraper in Manhattan, which covers almost an acre of ground, stands 38 stories high, was reported sold last week for $38,500,000 to a group including Le Roy W. Baldwin, August Heckscher and other directors of the Empire Trust Co. The price is the greatest...
In Manhattan, Henry L. Doherty, financier, lives in a bungalow atop a skyscraper,* sleeps in the open air. One morning he leaped from his warm couch, shivered, dashed for his clothes, forthwith ordered that his bed be put on a track, supplied with an electric motor. Financier Doherty now undresses...
In reference yours of a recent instant as published in your colyums I would like to declare that as far as I am not concerned the Planning Board is doing excellently. I ask you all if it isn't true that Harvard is getting more beautiful and more so. For...
Just as the skyscraper has grown out of America's industrial and commercial greatness, so, in time, will there develope a style in college architecture to represent America's cultural ideal. What this style will be, time will determine. If it is to be truly representative of America, it must...
The church-skyscraper was built by the Aid Society at a cost of $3,500,000 on property valued at $3,000,000, bequeathed many years ago to the Methodist Church. This Church aims at self-support and at making a profit, which is to be divided among other Methodist...