Bank of Manhattan Trust Building

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The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now commonly known as 40 Wall Street, is a historic neo-Gothic skyscraper in New York City's Financial District that was briefly one of the tallest buildings in the world.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf high-rise building
historic building
neo-Gothic building
office building
skyscraper
alsoKnownAs 40 Wall Street
The Trump Building
architect H. Craig Severance
Yasuo Matsui
architecturalStyle Art Deco
Neo-Gothic
borough Manhattan
city New York City
competedWith Chrysler Building
Empire State Building
country United States of America
surface form: United States
developer Chase Manhattan Bank
surface form: Bank of Manhattan Trust Company
floorCount 71
hasDesignFeature gothic ornamentation
pyramidal crown
setbacks
hasElevatorCount 36
hasFacadeMaterial brick
limestone
terra cotta
hasHistoricSignificance example of early 20th-century New York skyscraper race
height 283 m
927 ft
locatedIn Lower Manhattan
surface form: Financial District, Manhattan

Manhattan
New York
New York City
United States of America
surface form: United States
locatedOn Wall Street
neighborhood Financial District
openingDate May 1930
originalOwner Chase Manhattan Bank
surface form: Bank of Manhattan Trust Company
ownedBy The Trump Organization
partOf Lower Manhattan skyline
roofMaterial copper pyramid roof
startDate 1928
streetAddress 40 Wall Street
structuralEngineer H. G. Balcom
toppedOut 1929
use commercial offices
retail
wasOnce one of the tallest buildings in the world
tallest building in the world for a brief period
yearCompleted 1930

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40 Wall Street alsoKnownAs Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
The Trump Building formerName Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
H. Craig Severance notableWork Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
this entity surface form: Bank of Manhattan Trust Building (40 Wall Street)