Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — Tall Buildings. [ARTICLE]

Tall Buildings.

The Masonic Temple, Chicago, has twenty floors above ground, and a height from pavement to roof coping of 274 feet. The Pulitzer Building, New York, occupied by the World newspaper and by offices, has twelve above ground in the main structure, with a roof 191 feet above the pavement. On the top of this, however, is a six-story dome, in which the highest room is 280 feet above the ground. The New Netherlands Hotel, New York, now approaching completion, will have seventeen-floors, and reach a height of 210 feet above the pavement. Among the new buildings erected in Chicago are the Katahdin and Wachusett, each of seventeen stories, and 200 feet and 205 feet, respectively, from the pavement to the top of the roof. The Old Colony, another seven-teen-story building, will be 215 feet high.