New-York tribune., 1908-06-30
A 62 STORY BUILDING
SINGER PYGMY BESIDE 1T.
Equitable Life Files Plans for
Giant Project.


planned to replace the old home of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, occupying the blocks
bounded by Pine Nassau and Cedar streets and
Broadway. 1t will therefore be PSI feet inches
higher than the annex to the Metropolitan Life
Building, being erected at thet north end of the
block front in Madison avenue. from 23d to
oath street. With its annex, which is nearly
finished, the Metropolitan Life Building is the
tallest Office structure in the world it rises
go feet 3 inches above the curb line. 1t has
forty-six stories The Singer Building is the
next tallest office building in the world. 1t
was recently completed. and for some weeks
held the unique place of being the worlds high
est Office structure. Its forty-one stories reach
a height of 612 feet 1 inch above the curb,
The Eiffel tower in Paris is 9S4 feet high. The
Washington Monument is only 800 feet.
In every respect will the proposed new home
of the Equitable Life be record office struct-
ure. Besides being the tallest, it Will occupy
the most expensive skyscraper site in the world
as the estimated value of the land on which the
present building stands has been placed at from
Sl2oo0oo0 to S1J,O00,0Oo. 1t will have. too
sixteen stories more than the Metropolitan Lie,
twenty-one more than the Singer and VIII De
over three times the height Of the Trinity
Building opposite, with its twenty-one stories
and rising $50 feet inches above the curb IL
will also be the costliest office building in the
ID H
Chicago, who have drawn the plans for this
greatest of all skyscrapers, place the cost at
S10000.o00.
The costliest structure ever built an invest
.3,ert Is rhe-nszs- Plaza Hotel in the westerly
block front in Fifth avenue, from oSth to o9th
street That hosiery was opened several months
ago and represents expenditure OF nearly
SD, 100000. The Metropolitan Life, Singer ana
New Plaza projects comprise only three Of the
%+11rpC
city in the last few years, an era unparalleled
for building activity in the history of this city
The City Investing Building, too the largest
Office building in the world as REGARDS area
occupied, was recently opened for occupancy
and the twin buildings of the Hudson & Man
haitian Railroad Company, the biggest struct-
1,res ever put up for use partly as a railroad
terminal station and for offices, were also nm
ished a few weeks ago The City Investing
Building is at Cortlandt street and Broadway
and the twin structures of the Hudson & Man
haitian Railroad Company occupy the westerly
block fronts in Church street from Cortlandt
to Fulton street.
At 2 recent meeting OF real estate experts
and students Of realty affairs Robert +. DoWl-
ing president of the City Investing Company
lrophesied that the dawn OF a new ana greater
era in building Manhattan Island was near
at hand. He predicted that structures would be
probably in every other respect the record build
ines Of the world
The plans for the proposed new home OF the
EQUITABLE Life were filed with Buildings super
iutendent Murphy yesterday. 1t VIII prooaply
he several months before he decides the question
of issuing or Withholding permit for the erec-
.ion of the building. The entire helgnt or the
building above the curb line VIII De 'u' lee''
exclusive of the flagstaff, which will be 100 feet
TO its tip
The main building will be thirty-four stories.
,r lsa feet, with a frontage Of 1911 feet in
BROADWAY 1928 feet in Nassau street ana oof'-
fe+ and 31o3 feet in Pine and Ceoar slieets'
oerac+iyely Above the main oulloihg VIII pe
. so,,are tower, of twenty-elght STORES c6pLeu
i.t a cupola the tower and cupola pelns 7-o
.,,i.b making the total sixty-two stories OF
800 feet ,r;o,, and granite.
.-;,,,,,ines Of terra Gotta. The design VIII
- +te Renaissance type. presenting oaSs
-, ,reat piasters of Cornthiah anu DoiiC
ot,err the corners being offset WIN . 80
e,,r,,e The bays will be elaoora'eiy 80
81, carved work The ROOF OF 'he mann -,
- Ill be finished with cupoias seFeiai -
,,igt set around the base ol 'He ~ - .ao
iisH ~.r,,.,ure will be in two sections one SCI
tower sti - from, the thirty-fourth to the
ton The main cupola extends four
forty ninth story Inv
tories above this. .., .o,,r
- t,iIdinp is to be equippe" WIN
IN. .brea messenger elevators puliI III '"o
OF Inn - oreat elevator corridor finished III
,a,,sntal bronze. Eight VI ~ In
',, - the top Of the tower extension: ~
,s,,,os, -, 20 these there will be a nul.oe. oa
adoi'lo o>,,,,,sively for freight transportation.
'-,rp- - details Of the building, with It's artn.
aasien were submitted 10 Snpef!n'eiiu.n'
uInrnbv in series of fifty-eight mug thsn, TO-
duiP4-' = e,,rvev map accompanied tiieih ~
90 @,.o,v the lot boundaries. s.,nns re-
SNOW i',,,,d,ng. as shown in the drawings.
Ihe ~ Metropolitan Life Companys Maoi-
scs1 square building enlarged. ,,,o mos
Sca- ,,rasant horne of the Equitable Lie was
iiiS "a -, - enlarged in 1891