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40 Wall Street - The Trump Building

40 Wall Street
New York City NY United States

Status:
built
Construction Dates
  Began1929
  Finished1930
Floor Count71
Building Uses
 - office
Structural Types
 - highrise

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Spire927 ftPhorio
Floor 69836 ftPhorio
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Description
Architect: H. Craig Severance

- Originally the headquarters of the Bank of Manhattan. The Bank of Manhattan later became the Chase Manhattan Bank, which is now part of JP Morgan Chase. It no longer has offices at 40 Wall.

- This building was the world's tallest for a brief time in 1930, when it beat the Chrysler Building to completion in a year-long race. Then the Chrysler's builders had an extra-tall spire jacked up above the Bank of Manhattan's flagpole, claiming victory.

- On May 20th 1946, a U.S. Coast Guard plane (a small twin engined plane) hit the building at the 58th floor, killing 4. The building was relatively undamaged.

- Donald Trump bought the building in 1995. He intended to convert part of it to condos, but the office market became strong again and the space was simply leased out as offices.

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