40 Wall Street
office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
40 Wall Street, also known as the Trump Building, is a skyscraper in New York City, United States. It is 927 feet (283 m) tall and has 70 floors. It was built in 1930 and is one of the tallest buildings in the world.
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40 Wall Street | |
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Alternative names | The Trump Building, Manhattan Company Building |
Record height | |
Tallest in the world from April 1930 to May 27, 1930[I] | |
Preceded by | Woolworth Building |
Surpassed by | Chrysler Building |
General information | |
Architectural style | Neo-Gothic |
Location | 40 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005 |
Coordinates | 40.706964°N 74.009672°W / 40.706964; -74.009672 |
Construction started | May 1, 1929[1] |
Completed | May 1, 1930[2] |
Opening | May 26, 1930[3] |
Owner | Hinneberg brothers, Hamburg, Germany |
Landlord | Donald Trump |
Height | |
Architectural | 927 ft (283 m)[4] |
Top floor | 836 ft (255 m)[4] |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 72[4] |
Floor area | 1,111,675 sq ft (103,278.0 m2) |
Lifts/elevators | 36[4] |
Website | |
www.40wallstreet.com | |
Manhattan Company Building | |
NYC Landmark
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Location | 40 Wall Street, New York City |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1929–1930 |
Architect | H. Craig Severance, Yasuo Matsui, et al. |
Architectural style | Skyscraper |
NRHP reference No. | 00000577[5] |
Added to NRHP | June 16, 2000 |
References | |
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40 Wall Street was the tallest building in the world from April to May 1930. Before it was built, the tallest building in the world was the Woolworth Building. The Chrysler Building became the tallest a few months later.
At first it was named the Bank of the Manhattan Company Building, but when the name of the bank changed the building was named for its address of 40 Wall Street. When Donald Trump bought the building in 1995 he changed it to The Trump Building.