40 Wall Street

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40 Wall Street
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40 Wall Street was the world's tallest building from 1930 to 1930. *
Previous tallest	Woolworth Building
Surpassed by	Chrysler Building
Location	New York City, USA
Height (m)	283
Height (ft)	927
Stories	71
Built	1929-1930
Destroyed	n/a
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* Fully habitable, self-supported, from main entrance to rooftop; see World's tallest structures for other listings.

40 Wall Street is a 71-story skyscraper in New York City completed in 1930. It is located on the north side of Wall Street between Broad Street and William Street. It was also the site at which the Continental Congress met while New York City was the capital of the United States. The building is also known as the Trump Building (which adorns the building currently) after a 1996 renovation by Donald Trump who had bought the building. It was first known as Bank of Manhattan Trust Building when it was built. Its pinnacle reaches 927 feet (282.5m) and was very briefly the tallest building in the world, soon surpassed by the Chrysler Building finished that same year.

1 Race to be the world's tallest building
2 Miscellaneous
3 See also
- 3.1 Lists
- 3.2 Surrounding buildings
4 External links

Race to be the world's tallest building

40 Wall Street was planned to be 135 feet taller than the nearby Woolworth Building, which was completed in 1913. Most important, the plans were designed to be two feet taller than the Chrysler Building's planned height of 925 feet.

However, the Chrysler Building developers secretly changed the projected height of their building after 40 Wall Street was completed. A 185-foot spire was secretly assembled in the building's crown and hoisted into place, fulfilling tycoon Walter Chrysler's dream of owning the tallest building on Earth. Such glory was shortlived, however, as the Empire State Building would be finished the next year, 1931.