ENORMOUS BUILDING.
A CHICAGO PROPOSAL. LARGEST STRUCTURE IN WORLD. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK Dec. 16. A World's Temple of Agriculture is to be built in Chicago by a group of midwestern financiers. U will be "known as the American Agricultural Society Building, and will be the centre of tho farming interests of tho United States.
The building will cost £6,000,000, and will be the largest on earth. It will
have a broadcasting tower rivalling in height the Eiffel Tower of Paris.
The building will also have a convention hall capable of seating 20,000 people, and ,i commercial hotel containing 3500 rooms.
The money for the erection of tho struc.ure is said to bo already assured.
The building is to frcnt the Michigan boulevard at its junction with the Chicago River, and will have v . passenger and freight docks, warehouse facilities, and a suburban station. •»
The promoters of the scherre expect the whole work to be complete in May, 192?.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18895, 18 December 1924, Page 11
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