TALLEST BUILDING

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 99, 21 January 1926, Page 13

TALLEST BUILDING

BIG NEW YORK STRUCTURE

COMMENCED

EIGHT FEET HIGHER THAN THE WOOLWORTH

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New York, January 19. Work lias becfun on the tallest building in the world, 65 stories, the Christian Missionary building on Broadway, which will be" 800 feet high, or eight feet higher than the Woolworth Building. The new structure, which will contain an hotel, a church, a hospital, and a bank, is being built ]iy 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 missionary. 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 and a special station of the newly-construct-ed underground railway will be erected, so as nearly to fill the transportation needs 6f applicants for accommodation. An 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 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.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.