905 Feet High During the Construction of the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, 1929

905 feet (275 meters) high! Final steelworks completed on Bank of Manhattan, World’s highest building. The cameraman was there too!

The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building, now the Trump Building, is a 927-foot-tall (283 m) neo-Gothic skyscraper on Wall Street of Manhattan in New York City. Erected in 1929–1930 as the headquarters of the Manhattan Company, it was designed by H. Craig Severance with Yasuo Matsui and Shreve & Lamb.