Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-26
THIRD IN HEIGHT
Latest New York Skyscraper
to Be Built Up Forty five
Stories.
625 FEET ABOVE SIDEWALK
WOoIwOrth Tower to Be Larger Than
Singer and Surpassed by Only
Two Structures.

New York is to have a new sky
scraper Of wondrous proportions. In
fact, it will be the third highest build
! ing in the world This structure il
/ the Woolworth building, at Broadway
and Park place, opposite City Hall
| park.
1t is estimated that this skyscraper
! will cost close to $5,O00,000. The
/ plans fled for the foundations alone
! aggregate 100000 in cost From the
sidewalk to the top there will be for
ty-fve stories, the total height being
625 feet. exceeding the height of the
! Singer tower, just five blocks below.
| by thirteen feet. Only one building in
| New York will be higher, the Metro
! politan. whose tower rises 100 feet and
! inches above the street level. The
! only other loftier structure in the
world is the Eiftel tower. $50 feet.
GOTHIC STYLE FOLLOWED.
| The architect has cast the much used
/ renaissance type entirely aside. In
general treatment the facade will be
Gothic in style. and yet, while a sem
blance of Gothic. it will not be wholly
Gothic in method of construction or
exact forms Of detail.
The main building will rise to a
height of twenty-siX stories. The
tower. beginning at that point, will
contain nineteen stories. This tower
will be the spectacular feature of the
| building. as its pinnacle. which will
be brilliantly illuminated at night will
be discernible at distance of fifty
miles or more from the city. n promi-
nent mark In rhe landscape The tow
er will be eighty-six feet square. larger
in dimensions by about twenty feet
than the Singer tower. There will be
thirteen stories in the main tower sec
ton, while the upper section is to be
treated in four stages and will con
tain six stories.
The same architectural features and
system of adornment devoted to the
front Of the building will he similarly
carried out on the rear and sides.
One feature will be large swim
ming tank in the basement lined with
marble. There will also be shower
baths. lockers and other conveniences.
The building will probably contain a
well equipped gymnasium and running
track on the roof
CLUB QUARTERS PLANNED.
a portion Of the upper floor VIII be
used for Il restaurant. while the TWEEN
ty-fifth floor Of the main building. just
under the tower section. will be fitted
up as lunch club. with facilities for
about 2GO members. The club will
have large dining room and several
private dining rooms. n cheerful loung-
ing room with q magnificent billiard
room. on one side Of which will be n
lOgCia. and an observation room in the
form of q palm garden on the roof.
Resides these airy eating rooms. there
will be a restaurant or rathskeller in
the basement.
From the structural standpoint the
foundations for Il building of this size
deserve more than passing notice.
Having a sandy foundation to work
upon. borings have been made to a
depth of 100 feet 10 bedrock. and thir-
ty-eiGht caissons, some over sixteen
feet IN diameter. will be sunk to bed
rock level TO obtain n firm setting for
the $50 foot structure. Below the side
walk there viii be three stories, the
basement and 4 subbasement with the
boiler rooms below forming the first
real floor Level. Counting these. the
building will actually have forty-eight
stories.
The area covered by the building is
about 1880 square feet.