It actually does have elevators. I don’t think I blogged about it at the time, partly because it seemed so hard to believe that a building could get all the way from planning to completion with no one pointing out the problem.
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The first version of the story I heard was not that it didn’t have elevators. Instead, it was a 20-story building that was expanded to 47 stories, and when it was enlarged, nobody bothered to expand the elevator core. The story seems to have quickly gotten garbled from there.
Apparently the genesis of the “no elevators” story was something to the effect that that construction elevators weren’t emplaced at first, in a one-line comment about the original financer suspending payments because the workers were supposedly hauling materials up 23 flights of stairs. That’s obviously not what happened either, as a moment of thought will reveal, but that’s probably where the kernel of truth in the story is, if there is one. Perhaps the construction elevator wasn’t built until the second or fourth or so story was ready?