Woolworth Building Columbia Records. Columbia Records moved into the building in 1913 and housed a recording studio in it. In 1917, Columbia made what are considered the first jazz recordings, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, in this studio. During World War II, the Kellex Corporation, part of the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons, was based here. Notes Bibliography Woolworth Building The Woolworth Building, at 233 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City, designed by architect Cass Gilbert and constructed between 1910 and 1912, is an early US skyscraper. The original site for the building was purchased by F. W. Woolworth and his
Lewis Cass Ledyard Burlingham, Edward Julius Berwind, Morgan J. O'Brien, William Sloane Coffin Sr., Herbert Eustis Winlock, Arthur Curtiss James, Frank L. Polk, Cass Gilbert, Edwin H. Anderson, Harry M. Lydenberg, Keyes Metcalf, John G. Milburn, and Devereux Milburn. His estate was valued in excess of $10,000,000 upon his death. Through his son, he was the grandfather of Lewis Cass Ledyard III (1911–1990), Dorothy Cass Ledyard, who first married Hugh McLeod Fenwick (1905–1991) (he divorced her in 1931 to marry Millicent Vernon Hammond), and later, Richard Allen Knight (d. 1947), in 1933, and Ruth Emery Ledyard, who married William de Rham, a great-great