I have heard of a building taller than the Empire State building that was planned for mid-town Manhattan in the 1930's, but it was never built. Anyone else know of this?

• ID# 102.2 (reply to #102.1) - 9 Feb 1999
  At least there were plans for a 400-meter building at Eighth Avenue and 42nd Street, where the McGraw-Hill Building was built instead. ED
  • ID# 102.3 (reply to #102.2)
    From: Frank Gerlak ([email protected]) - 17 Feb 1999

    The building that was to be built on the McGraw Hill site was the Larkin Building planned in 1926 and was to be 1208' tall - 110 stories - that from the New York Times of December 18, 1926. The project was to cost $22,500,000 and was projected to provide a rental payback of 3,000,000/year - pretty good! A scan of the building from the Times has been sent. In addition, Metropolitan Life planned a skyscraper which is covered on this web site. On October 8, 1929 in the New York Times, a project by Charles F. Noyes was announced to be "on-hold". This project was a 150 story building to be built on a site between Broadway, Worth, Duane, and Church Streets. This is all I know about that building.
    Newpaper articles announcing new "tallest" buildings were plentiful in 1929 - articles on their demise were few and far between in 1930!

• ID# 102.4 (reply to #102.1)
  From: Andrew Stern ([email protected]) - 12 Feb 2001

  for those of you wondering about the Larkin tower I made a site answering your questions at http://www.geocities.com/larkintower/.