24 September 2005

40-Story Tower -- building section


Vertical section through proposed skyscraper illustrating the pile foundations (through layer of quick sand) as well as mid-rise elevators and high-rise elevators.


Drawing from Saint Louis Globe-Democrat article published Sunday 31 May 1931.

Newspaper clipping courtesy of the Harris Armstrong Archives, Special Collections, Washington University in Saint Louis.

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