The Great Skyscraper Extortion Scheme of 1911

[BackinJax05]

The Heard Building was functional. Not pretty, not ugly, but very functional. Tearing it down was yet another waste of a useful historic landmark.
Today on that site sits "Helmut's Pencil" (the BofA bldg)
Sorry, but in my opinion Helmut Jahn's "masterpiece" looks like a 42 floor pencil.