Chrysler Building Chrysler eventually built and paid for the building's subway entrance. Work on the new entrance started in March 1930 and it opened along with the Chrysler Building two months later. The basement also had a "hydrozone water bottling unit" that would filter tap water into drinkable water for the building's tenants. The drinkable water would then be bottled and shipped to higher floors. The private Cloud Club formerly occupied the 66th through 68th floors. It opened in July 1930 with some three hundred members, all wealthy males who formed the city's elite. Its creation was spurred by Texaco's wish for
67th New York Infantry Fort Schuyler for basic army training. August 21, 1861: The 67th was attached to Graham's Brigade, Buell's division (later known as "Keyes Division"), which was part of the Division of the Potomac. The division became part of the renamed Army of the Potomac. August 22, 1861: The 67th departed for Washington, D.C., stopping overnight in Baltimore where they slept with loaded muskets at the station, due to the threat of rioting secessionists in the city. They arrived in Washington on August 24. They would remain in Washington, moving from camp to camp, until March 1862. October 1861: The 67th Regiment