Carew Tower

Architect	Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
Location	Cincinnati, Ohio
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Built by the same architects, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, prior to Empire State Building, the Carew Tower is clad in the same material and system as the Empire State Building. The word on the street - by my old architecture history professor - is that as the Carew Tower was being completed, the developer of the Empire State needed a building, and needed it built fast. So the architects used the exact same building set from Carew Tower, just stretched it out in various directions to fit the site and added extra floors. The spire was added to compete with the then under construction Chrysler Building.

This story might be apophrical, but it would explain the reported two-week period which Shreve, Lamb & Harmon pumped out building drawings for Empire State.

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