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===== Private Chrysler offices ===== Originally, Walter Chrysler had a two-story apartment on the 69th and 70th floors with a fireplace and a private office. The office also contained a gymnasium and the loftiest bathrooms in the city.<ref>{{cite web |date=June 17, 2014 |title=New York Scrapers β Art Deco II |url=http://in-arch.net/NYC/nyc2a.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160618193811/http://www.in-arch.net/NYC/nyc2a.html |archive-date=June 18, 2016 |access-date=November 1, 2017 |website=in-Arch.net}}</ref> The office had a medieval ambience with leaded windows, elaborate wooden doors, and heavy plaster.{{sfn|Stern|Gilmartin|Mellins|1987|p=609}} Chrysler did not use his gym much, instead choosing to stay at the Chrysler Corporation's headquarters in Detroit.<ref name="NYTimes-Stravitz-Answers1-2009" /> Subsequently, the 69th and 70th floors were converted into a dental clinic.<ref name="McDowell 2000" /> In 2005, a report by ''The New York Times'' found that one of the dentists, Charles Weiss, had operated at the clinic's current rooftop location since 1969.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hamilton|first=William L.|title=On Top of the World, Drafting, Dreaming and Drilling|website=The New York Times|date=May 26, 2005|issn=0362-4331|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/26/garden/on-top-of-the-world-drafting-dreaming-and-drilling.html|access-date=November 5, 2017}}</ref> The office still had the suite's original bathroom and gymnasium.<ref name="McDowell 2000" /> Chrysler also had a unit on the 58th through 60th floors, which served as his residence.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201930%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201930%2520-%25202258.pdf|title=Chrysler's Loftiest Apartment|work=The New York Sun|last=Zismer|first=Gustave|page=55|date=April 16, 1930|access-date=November 3, 2017|via=[[Old Fulton New York Postcards]]}}</ref>
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