Re: (quondam) tallest buildings

 If you go to:
http://www.skyscraper.org/tallest/tallest.htm
there is time line of the tallest buildings.

then on the same site at:
http://www.skyscraper.org/exhibitions/bb/bb_00.htm
is a series of 12 slides that go over the history of the big buildings

An interesting tidbit of information about the Chrysler building. It
may be the only building in NYC that does not pay property tax. The
money is paid instead to Cooper Union, the owner of the land. More info
here:
http://www.wernercohn.com/Chrysler.html


enjoy,

Andrew


--- Flamingfields@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I thought that it was the Empire State building that was competing
> with the
> Chrysler building, and that one or the other of them won out in the
> end by
> sleight of hand--poking a secret final spire out the top as the final
> culmination.
>
>                 - Bascom


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