Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the tower, with Gordon Bunshaft leading the design, for Chase Manhattan Bank, and David Rockefeller proposed it. Chase bought the site in 1955. Groundbreaking was on January 28, 1957, the steel topped out on September 9, 1959, and the tower was completed in December 1960. Its official opening was on May 28, 1961.
It is 813 feet (248 m) tall with 60 floors, and each floor is about 29,680 square feet. The facade is about 8,800 plate glass panes in aluminum panels, over 40 steel columns sheathed in aluminum. The article gives the style as International Style. It also gives conflicting counts of 37 and 43 elevators.
JPMorgan Chase sold the building to Fosun International in 2013 for 725 million dollars, and Fosun renamed it 28 Liberty Street in 2015. It was designated a landmark on February 10, 2009. The plaza is private property.
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