Who was the architect of the Chrysler Builing and did he create any other buildings in NYC?

• ID# 122.2 (reply to #122.1) - 7 May 1999
  William van Allen, who, as far as I know, didn't design anything else for NYC. ED

• ID# 122.3 (reply to #122.1)
  From: Frank Gerlak ([email protected]) - 9 May 1999

  William Van Allen was a partner of H. Craig Severance years before the Chrysler. Their partnership broke up under less than "happy" circumstances. H. Craig Severance went on to design the Bank of Manhattan Building in 1929 - to be the tallest in the world. William Van Allen went on to gain the Reynolds Building commission. Later, because of lack of money and interest, the Reynolds Building drawings were sold to Walter P. Chrysler. The building was renamed accordingly. Ultimately, Van Allen engaged his former partner in a "story by story" competition. He bested his former partner(with sweet revenge) by a swat with a stainless steel building top. He thus achieved the "short" distinction of being the architect of the "tallest" building in the world.

• ID# 122.4 (reply to #122.1)
  From: Chris Damore ([email protected]) - 11 May 1999

  Actually, I have read that van Alen had designed a house in Brooklyn and (I think) somewhere in Indiana...whether or not either house is standing, I have no idea...and thats all the info I have on it..:)
  Chris
  http://www.luciddreams.com/chryslerbuilding

• ID# 122.5 (reply to #122.1) - 19 May 1999
  According to the book "New York 1960" by Stern, Mellins and Fishman, van Allen (or Alen?) designed an all-steel Depression-era exhibition house at the site of the present 99 Park Avenue, at the Northeast corner of 39th St. ED