Tootsall Building

[South Bay]

Hello,

I am trying to find out if anyone knows if there is or was a building in New York called the Tootsall Building.

The Tootsall Building is mentioned in a novel that is supposedly based on a true story that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

It was described as a new 30 story skyscraper on lower Broadway near New York's city hall.

If you have any knowledge of this building I would love to know!

Thanks,
South Bay

[TLOZ Link5]

I googled it, nothing seems to be coming up.

[South Bay]

Thanks for checking!
South Bay

[thomasjfletcher]

At that location it could be the Woolworth, although there are half a dozen or so around there that it could be---- (and the Woolworth is a fair bit taller....)

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC19-woolworth_pc.jpg

more images (http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC019.htm)

[South Bay]

I had a simialar thought, but as you say it is somewhat taller than 30 stories.
If the Tootsall Building did actually exist it may have been torn down years ago. Thanks for the great old photo of the Woolworth Bld.

[frances]

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[frances]

I live in Sydney Australia and today Sunday July 16 I was reading Best Short Stories of 1928 2. American because I collect this series and writre stories myself.

I read a story my Myles Connolly titled The First of Mr Blue and in it the Tootsall Building is mentioned. The story is about Blue a young guy who convinces the superintent of the building to allow him live in a tent (becomes a box) on the roof and where Blue makes great things happen or has great fantasies about how the roofs of skyscrapers could be used.

I googled to see if such a building existed and landed of course on this site and joined and now make this reply.

My guess is that it's an imaginary building.

Frances

[ablarc]

Hi, frances. Hope you keep coming back.