Photograph by Paul Thompson 



THE WOOIyWORTH BUILDING 



Rising 785 feet above the sidewalk, possessing forty acres of floor space, and having 

 elevator shafts with a combined length of two miles, the Woolworth Building well fits its 

 role of tallest building in the world. One of its chief successes is, according to architects, 

 its scale. The architectural adornments which, viewed from the street, look like delicate and 

 elaborate embroidery in stone, do not become coarse or crude when seen close at hand. One 

 authority calls this civilization's greatest cathedral of commerce and another the world's 

 foremost temple of trade. That it is both' a beautiful and a substantial structure no one who 

 has ever £een it outside and in will controvert. 



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