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Metropolitan Life North Building
25 Madison Avenue
New York City NY United States
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| Status: | built | | Construction Dates | | Began | 1932 | | Finished | 1950 | | Floor Count | 30 |
|  | | Building Uses | | - office | | Structural Types | | - highrise | | Architectural Style | | - art deco | | Materials | | - steel | | - limestone | | - marble |
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| | Heights | | Value | | Source / Comments | | | | Roof | | 451 ft | | | | | | | |
Description
• Architect: Harvey W. Corbett & D. Everett Waid
• Announced in 1928, the Metropolitan Life North Building was intended to have 100 floors, surpassing the nearby Empire State Building as the World's Tallest Building.
• After one year of construction the Wall Street Crash of 1929 eventually led construction to stop at the 29th floor in 1933 due to financial problems.
• After three stages of construction the building was finally completed in 1950.
• The building is still a base for a much larger skyscraper, so technically it can be finished, but there are no plans to do so.
• Because the building was supposted to be taller, it has 30 elevators, more than enough for a 30 story building. As a result there is often no wait for elevators in the building.
• The building contains a subway station.
• Diagram of the original proposal:
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=8942
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