Chrysler Building First Floor

Empire state s builders first planned an 80 story tower but added six more to top chrysler by.

Chrysler building first floor.

The chanin building was completed a few months before the completion of the chrysler building. In 1976 the chrysler building was declared a national historic landmark and a new york city landmark in 1978. The chrysler building is an art deco style skyscraper located in the turtle bay neighborhood on the east side of manhattan new york city at the intersection of 42nd street and lexington avenue near midtown manhattan at 1 046 feet 318 9 m the structure was the world s tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the empire state building in 1931. Chrysler maintained his personal offices in the chrysler building and the first floor held a chrysler automobile showroom shut down in 1963.

It s a 56 floor deco gem that once had an outdoor observatory. Early photographs in my book show that many of the chrysler excavations were taken from the chanin. The private cloud club popular during prohibition occupied a three floor high space from the 66th to 68th floors and had a hidden room but it was converted to office space in the late 1970s. In five heady years between 1928 and 1933 construction work was completed on the new york life building 615ft 30 rockefeller plaza 850ft 40 wall street 927ft and the chrysler building 1.