Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-26
HIGHEST IN THE WORLD
Park Row Building Towers
800 Feet Above the Earth.
SOME COSTLY AREAS
LAND HELD FOR $500 A SQUARE
FOOT.
Pieroont Morgan's Proposed Museum
New Public Library-Palatial
Homes Being Erected.

INC" uO44C AAU1dA oAdt4hA
Homes Being Erected.
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald.
NEW YORK, May %. 1905.
The highest occupied structure in New
York, and in the world, is the Park Row
building, opposite the post Office. which has
thirty-one stories, including the towers.
whose crests are 800 feet from the ground.
Without the towers. under the roof as
the architects say, which is 1886 feet from
the ground, are twenty-eight stories with
$50 office rooms. The building cost
81, 100000.
A new building, SO far without name,
just being finished and known as Sixty
Wall street." rises without tower TWEEN
ty-eight full stories, with unusually high
ceilings for a sky-scraper. 1t is 344 feet
from pavement to cornice and therefore, as
the clerks of the building department say,
is the tallest building in New York under
flat roof. 1t extends through from Wall
street to Pine, but for some reason or an
other the Wall street front is only seven
teen stories high. The Pine street section
rises above it like a monument. The
SiOdiiu iioOl Is W Uc occupied as a branch
post office
The next tallest building is that of the
Commercial Gable Company, the roof of
which is 81 feet from the ground, with
.We .I stories: The building of the
National Bank of New York is 312 feet high
with twenty-five stories; the New York
Times 80 feet with twenty-five stories: the
American Surety Company building 3OS feet
with tWenty-one stories; the Hanover Ma
tional Bank 800 feet high with twenty
three stories. and Burnham's "Flatiron"
building is 300 feet high with twenty-one
stories.
The largest office building in New York
is the Broad Exchange at the corner of
Broad street and Exchange place 1t is $50
feet high. has twenty stories, $1,000 square
ieet OF moor space on each story, or a to-
TAI OF olooOO square feet more than twelve
acres of space. There are 500 suites of from
two to i've offices and it cost s7,5N0,O0O
Held for $500 a Square Foot.
The highest price ever paid for land in
this country was 81, 800, 600 for a lot 81 feet
square, now occupied by the American
Surety Company's building at the corner of
broadway and Pine street The corner lot
Cost SzoL6' square foot, which is at the
Idte OF 81 ,Jo0,oO an acre. An even higher
piice' sfoo square foot, is asked for the
southeast corner of Broadway and Wall
street, the most valuable piece OF ground
IN America, which is at the rate of S17 4Oa :
ooD an acre. There have been two or three
sales OF property in London at q biobar
l price, put under peculiar circumstances.
therefore 1t may be considered the most
costly section of Gods footstool
The New York Club recently sold tic
pudding at the corner of 35th street and
9TH avenue for 100000 and will hni,d i"o "
new, modern house on the north sidn %
43d street between 9Th and Madison &c
nues. The club paid S242, 900 for the nron-
e ef In 1872. l am told that this is the
highest price ever paid for uptown Dron.
erty, although the point of land betwean
Broadway and 9th avenue at oath street
now occupied by a drug. store, is held at a
81 by 100 feet, with a surface of o 900
square feet. which is about $50 a SQUARE
foot. 4"ie
An All-Night Bank.
The All-Night Bank paid s75OOoo for
about 1850 square feet on 9Th avenue ar
the corner of 44th street where it ia nre
airing to erect a costly home for unfoue
institution-the only one of it's kind in
the world The architecture is to be sim
liar to that of Tiffanys new store at the
corner of 9Th avenue and 3Sth street which
the highest authorities consider the finest
piece of business architecture in the
United States, if not in the world 1t is
severely classic, Of white marble, four
stories high, with wide windows and a
heavy cornice.
The All-Night Bank has a capital Of
S25o,o0o and was organized by Thomas B.
Clark, Harry Payne Whitney. Clarence H.
M Mhorns an W. ok * Vanderbilt oakIeigh
means, for the convenience of people who
cannot do all their banking in the
day time. 1t will have literally an
from II o'clock Monday morning until II
o'clock Saturday night, with three relays
of tellers, clerks and bookkeepers, work
ing eight hours at a shift. 1t will do a
regular banking business, receiving de-
posits. paying checks, discounting notes
at any hour of the day or night as may
suit it's customers. Mr.. Clark, the orig
inator of the scheme, is better known as
a picture dealer than financier and he
seems to have a penchant for late hours
He originated the Brook Club, which is an
all-night affair, where hungry or thirsty
gentleman may obtain drink or sup
per at any time during the twenty-four
hours. The ordinary clubs close down at
! o'clock am. and some of them at II.
New Central Public Library.
The new central public library for which
Mr. Carnegie gave $4,000 o0-and he has
provided also for twenty Eight branch
libraries in different parts of New York
is up to the second story and is growing
rapidly. II stands the site of the old
reservoir between 10th and 42d streets is
of white marble and purely classic de-
sign. Carerre & Hastings are the archi-
tects and they obtained the contract in a
competition with twelve of the leading
and convenience of arran cement it will ri
val the Congressional Library at Wash
ington. There will be few more beautiful
modern buildings in the world and it will
be the chief ornament of one of the most
famous of streets. Few cities have such
architectural panoramas as is furnished
by 9TH avenue. Few royal palaces are
more splendid or beautiful than some of
the private residences on that street.
Pierpont Morgan's Museum.
Mr.. Pierpont Morgan is erecting a pri-
vate museum to shelter his extraordinary
collection of books, pictures and antiquities
that will cost more than a million dollars
1t is situated on Both street between Mad
son and Park avenues, in the rear of his
residence, and is 100 feet square. The de-
sign by Mckm, Meade & White, is pure
| classic, and nothing could be more appro-
| pirate to the purpose for which it is in
tended. Mr. Morgan has expended several
millions of dollars in making his collec-
ton, which contains many unique articles