| 405 Lexington Avenue New York City NY United States |
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| Heights | Value | Source / Comments | ||||
| Spire | 318.9 m | Building lobby exhibition | ||||
| An exhibition in the building's lobby reports the height as 1046' 4.5" | ||||||
| Roof | 282.0 m | |||||
| Bottom of the spire | ||||||
| Top floor | 261.4 m | New York Department of Buildings | ||||
| 77th floor | ||||||
| Observation deck | 238.7 m | |||||
| 71st floor; now no longer open but leased to tenants. | ||||||
| Description Companies • Owner(s): TMW Real Estate, Tishman Speyer Properties. ___________________________________________________________ Facts & Description • Tallest building in the world from 1930 to 1931. • Originally, the building had an observation deck, this deck was closed when the Empire State Building opened and has since been converted into office space. • Cost: $15 million. • The Chrysler Corporation moved out and sold the building in the mid-1950s. • William Van Alen designed a 185ft (56.3m) spire, inspired by a car radiator grill, which was raised to the top in 90 minutes, surpassing 40 Wall Street, and the Eiffel Tower as the tallest structure in the world. • 391,831 rivets were used to make the Chrysler Building. • The "Cloud Club" was a private lounge area at the top of the building where people could rest and in the times of prohibition, had a hidden room. On the 2nd floor of the Cloud Club, Chrysler had a private lounge. • The 71st floor observation deck has triangular windows, with the walls having stars and the lights appeared as saturn. It is now leased to tenants. • In 1945 the observation deck was closed, the Cloud Club followed in the 1970's. • When the Chrysler Building was being fixed up, they found that all 3,800 windows were fine. The spire however leaked which was fixed, renovation was finished in 2002. |
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