The
Woolworth Building, at sixty stories,
is one of the oldest — and one
of the most famous — skyscrapers
in New York City. More than ninety
years after its construction, it is
still one of the fifty tallest buildings
in the United States as well as one
of the twenty tallest buildings in
New York City. Constructed in neo-Gothic
style by architect Cass Gilbert, who
was commissioned by Frank Woolworth
in 1910 to design the new corporate
headquarters on Broadway, between
Park Place and Barclay Street in Lower
Manhattan, opposite City Hall, it
opened on April 24, 1913. Originally
planned to be 625 feet (190.5 meters)
high, it was built to 792 feet (241
meters); construction cost was US$13,500,000,
which Woolworth paid in cash.
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