Per AIA Guide 40 Wall (aka Bank of Manhattan Company) was completed in
1929. The ground floor was remodeled in 1963.

David Minor

>Jerry Tobin, Jim Maguire, NYHISTers & NYC-Rootsers,
>
>
>In my earlier posting concerning the first skyscraper, I forgot to include
>its date.
>
>The Tower Building located at 50 Broadway was completed in 1889 and it lasted
>only until 1914.  The Tower Building was 11 stories.  It was developed and
>owned by John Noble Stearns, a silk importer.  The architect was Bradford Lee
>Gilbert.
>
>There are two pictures of the Tower Building (1890 and 1900) accompanying a
>New York TIME's article (Page 7, Real Estate Section, Sunday, May 5, 1996)
>describing the building and the issues that had to be overcome in building it
>
>At the moment, I do not know when 40 Wall Street, the tallest skyscraper
>immediately prior to the Empire State Building was completed.
>
>A good resource (recommended by Christopher Gray, the TIMES architectural
>historian) is "Rise of the New York Skyscraper" by Bradford Landau and Carl
>W. Condit (Yale University Press, $50).
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Walter Greenspan


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