There was also praise for what Stern characterized as "Walker's only completed skyscraper". Ada Louise Huxtable of "The New York Times" wrote in 1975 that 1 Wall Street was "an Art Deco masterpiece". The "Times" said in 2001 that a "triumvirate of great Art Deco contemporaries" in New York City would include the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and 1 Wall Street. Stern stated that in 1 Wall Street's design, "structure became an unseen prop for poetry"; he further called the building's form "a natural precipice of stone shaped by erosion".