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I am thrilled to see all the attention that the Chrysler Building receives. My great grandfather, Ralph Squire, was the Structural Steel engineer on the bldg. My father used to tell stories about going to the site with his father (the 'son') to test each piece of strutural steel before it was used in the construction. The architect, Van Allen, was my grandfather's cousin. Nancy Squire-Robinson

It's truly a fantastic building. If you ever find some old pictures of the early days of the building, its construction, or the builders, it'd be great if you could upload them and share them with the world! --Quasipalm 19:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone know if you can still walk into the lobby and have a look around? When I was there in June 2001, you could, but I imagine security has been tightened somewhat since then --Robert Merkel 12:32 Jan 12, 2003 (UTC)

Would anyone like to improve this photo? I have a lovely full colour photo of the building lit up at dusk. - Montréalais

Yes! Please give us a better photo of this wonderful building (about the only piece of New York that I'd steal and put in Melbourne if I could;) --Robert Merkel 08:36 Jan 16, 2003 (UTC)

A great infobox

Someone wrote this infobox in HTML. I've removed it because it doesn't quite fit anymore with the addition of the template-based standard skyscraper infoboxes, but I felt guilty so I moved it here in case it's ever useful to someone.

Chrysler Building

lobby

You can in fact walk into the lobby during working hours on the weekdays. There are tours of the building during OpenhouseNYC each year (http://www.ohny.org/ohny_website/start.html).

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Merge from The Chrysler Building ?

Someone has just posted a long article at The Chrysler Building. It seems like a paper that was written for a class or something. FreplySpang (talk) 05:47, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Disambig "Gallery"

I'm trying to disambiguate for the term "gallery," and this article was on the list. Unfortunatley, none of the links on the dab page seem to match what's needed here, as I assume the top floor used to be a viewing gallery, not an Art gallery. Any ideas of what to do would be appreciated. AlexDitto 22:12, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

tallest brick building?

I thought the Chrysler Building is made out of steel and metal, not brick. Even it is was made out of brick, the ESB will still tower over it. Can someone fix this?

- yeah, it definitely has a steel frame... 212.64.98.189 22:48, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

I have deleted the statement "Chrysler Building is still the tallest brick building in the world." as erroneous and misleading (and absurd), implying that the brick is load-bearing. While the CB has bricks, the vertical load bearing system is steeel frame, not brick. Since the CB has some wood also (say, the in the window transoms), is it also the world's tallest wood bldg? I believe the world's tallest masonry load-bearing bldg is the Monadnock in Chicago (16 stories?).

I does have brick which can be seen up near the Eagles in closeup photos, but the ESB is ALSO brick and in the late 60's on the 86th floor observatory was a glass display case with a brick inside it. It said the architect ordered 10 million brick, and this one brick was what was left over. This is also confirmed;

The Empire State Building is composed of 60000 tons of steel, 200000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite, 10 million bricks, www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/empire_state.html

There's also;

in addition to the steel frame, construction materials included 62,000 cubic yards of concrete; 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite, which comprised most of the exterior

http://www.constructioncompany.com/historic-construction-projects/empire-state-building/

And last but not least, proof that the ESB contains almost 300% more bricks;

	 At one point 3000 construction workers were working on the tower simultaneously.

- 20,961 tons of structural steel, 391,881 rivets, and 3,826,000 bricks were used to assemble the (Chrysler) building.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=114867

"The Chrysler Building was the first structure in the world to surpass the 1,000 foot (305 m) threshold." ; Didn't want to change the page flat out, but this is conflicting with Eiffel Tower page, define structure, the Eiffel Tower (1889) is all together 1,070. Chrysler building was the first building but not structure.. just lobbying for accuracy.

Actually, when the chrysler building passed the Eiffel Tower, The tower wasn't over 1000 feet tall yet. The Eiffel Tower is currently 1063 Feet tall, but this is due to a 79 communications antenna which was added in 1957. So when the Chrysler surpassed the Eiffel in 1930, It was the first man-made structure of any sort to exceed 1000 feet in height. Please see the introduction and Events sections of the Eiffel Tower Article for these references.http://en.wikipedia.org/Eiffel_Tower —Preceding unsigned comment added by JWut89LA (talk • contribs) 16:56, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

38 or 58 m spire?

This page says the secretly assembled spire was 38 m: http://en.wikipedia.org/40_Wall_Street The Chrysler Building page itself says: 58.4 m. Now, which is it? Or is the 58.4 m including some length which isn't visable from the outside?

"Despite not being the second tallest tower in New York..."

The above was added to the article today, but... according to Misplaced Pages's list of the world's tallest buildings, the Chrysler Building is the second tallest tower in New York... ? HMishkoff 00:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I have removed the erroneous statement that the Chrysler Building is not the second tallest tower in NY. 68.175.106.173 07:48, 9 December 2006 (UTC)Anon

Gut the Popular Culture section?

All of it seems mostly trivia and not in itself notable. Unless someone responds, I'll be bold and edit

I say, cut out anything which is not definately about the CB. that would exclude 'looks like' and 'inspired by' and 'in the background'IceDragon64 21:47, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

I've noticed that people always excuse their disemboweling of articles by saying "I'll be bold."

And the word is spelled "definitely", not "definately". -- Davidkevin (talk) 08:31, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Chrysler Corp

Does anyone know how long the Chrysler Corporation was actually housed in the building? heresthecasey | talk 23:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Interior

What struck me most when I saw the CB was the lobby interior. As I recall it has striking huge dark panels of labradorite on the walls. Could someone upload a photo of this? IceDragon64 21:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

The Building

There is a modern model of the Chrysler Building from New York in Chicago. Does anyone know what the name of that is?

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