Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1914 — AT HOME, FORTY STORIES UP [ARTICLE]

AT HOME, FORTY STORIES UP

The Owner of the Wool worth Building to Live In the Highest Dwelling In the World. New York.—A floor in the tower of the Woolworth building is to be utilized as an apartment by Frank W. Woolworth, owner of the building. The apartment, which will be the fortieth floor, will be the highest dwelling in the world. The entire floor is to be divided into a series of rooms. The floor has an area of about twenty-five hundred square feet, the area of a city lot. The .ilghest apartment at present In the city is the top floor of the 17story house at the northwest corner of Park avenue and Seventy-ninth street. Until the construction of the Park avenue apartment the highest dwelling was that of Dr. Thomas A. Emmet on the roof of the 16-story loft building which he built a few years ago on the site of his residence at the southeast corner of Madison avenue and Twentyninth street