TALLEST BUILDING IN WORLD

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 7

TALLEST BUILDING IN WORLD

LAND AGENT'S ENTERPRISE. A THANKSGIVING SKYSCRAPER (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 19. Work has begun on the tallest building in the world. The Christian Missionary building on Broadway is to be sixty-five storeys (800 ft) high. It will be Bft higher than the Woohvorth Building. The new structure, which will contain a hotel, a church, a hospital, and a bank, is being built by Oscar Conkle, a wealthy real estate operator, in gratitude for the recovery of his son Howard from an illness. Howard is now studying to become * medical missionary. Ten per cent of j the earnings of the structure will be utilised to found and maintain a medical, missionary base on the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. | The building, exclusive of the land vsJtie, will cost fourteen million dollars, and a special station of the newly con-1 structed underground railway will be erected, and will nearly fill the transportation needs. j Applicants of the Undenominational Church will be located on the main floor, which will also have a dining room of a capacity for 2000 persons. The hotel will have 4500 rooms, in which drinking, smoking, and Sunday newspapers will lbe prohibited. There will be twelve roof gardens and a large hospital. The top floors will be capable of handling all the surgery cases.— (Reuter.)