Woolworth Building 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 real estate agent Edward J. Hogan by April 15, 1910, from the Trenor Luther Park Estate and other owners for $1.65 million. By January 18, 1911, Woolworth and Hogan had acquired the final site for the project, totaling $4.5 million. More than a century after its construction, it remains, at , one of the 100 tallest buildings in
Arthur Gilbert (real estate developer) to carry on the lineage and legacy of the Gilbert name. Patrick, the eldest, has a son Jackson Ryan Gallagher who was born in 2005. Gilbert died of a heart attack on September 2, 2001, at his private residence in Beverly Hills, California. He was eighty-eight years old. The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation is an active philanthropic organization. For example, it donated US$6 million to the Younes and Soraya Israel Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006. Arthur Gilbert (real estate developer) Sir Arthur Gilbert (born Abraham Bernstein; May 16, 1913 – September 2,