6/11/2023 0 Comments Broadway by Fran Leadon![]() The lobby sculpture includes Woolworth counting nickels, Gilbert holding a model of the building, Gunwald Aus, the structural engineer, measuring a girder. Horace Walpole, who built a Gothic “castle” at “Strawberry Hill” and wrote The Castle of Otranto (1765), could have set his action here. The lobby is clothed in Skyros veined marble. Rising 792 feet without setback, it soars only the Seagram and CBS Buildings have the combination of articulate architecture and massing to achieve similar drama. ![]() Once much maligned for its eclectic Gothic detail and onetime charcoal Gothic crown, this sheer shaft is one of New York’s most imposingly sited skyscrapers. Façade restored, 1977-1981, Ehrenkrantz Group. Woolworth Building (offices), 233 Broadway, bet. ![]()
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