WOOLWORTH BUILDING

a skyscraper in New York City, completed in 1912 and long the world's tallest building, towering 792 feet in height. -Collier's Encyclopedia a sixty-story building in New York City, New York, USA, built in 1913. It was the world's largest office building at the time, and remained so for nearly twenty years. It was built by American merchant Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919) following the success of his five-and-tencent Woolworth stores.a sixty-story skyscraper built in New York City in 1913. For almost twenty years it was known as the world's tallest office building. It was built by Frank Woolworth, American merchant and founder of the five-and-ten-cent store (a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items for personal and household use.)