Do Buildings Have A 13th Floors

Mar 20 2005 2 16 pm.

Do buildings have a 13th floors.

For those astute observers out there you may have noticed that many hotels and office buildings don t have a 13 th floor. The rule of 13. Even then the first skyscraper the home insurance building was. The habit of leaving out the 13th floor in tall hotels is a relatively new one.

Of course not all hotels skip the 13th floor. How could this legend about the unluckiness of the number 13 pervade even the hospitality industry. Prices for 13th floor apartments the handful of them that exist don t sell at a discount according to jonathan. I lived on the 13th floor of the dorm building in new york.

Pulling a number out of the floor plan serves to make a building seem taller. The most common include denoting what would otherwise be considered the thirteenth floor as level 14 giving the thirteenth floor an alternate designation such as 12a or m the. The thirteenth floor is a designation of a level of a multi level building that is often omitted in countries where the number 13 is considered unlucky. Some buildings do indeed have a 13th floor.

One world trade center includes it as do all hilton international hotels. So does the flatiron as did the twin towers. A good example is that some have suggested the 13th floor in government buildings is not really missing but actually contains top secret governmental departments or more generally that it is proof of something sinister or clandestine going on. Management companies for the rest of the buildings according to the.

And others are sneaky and find ways to get around it like floor 12a. Omitting the 13th floor may take a variety of forms. As reported by the atlantic research conducted by cityreality the new york city based real estate listing site found that out of 629 apartment buildings in new york city with 13 or more floors a mere 9 percent actually labeled their 13th floor as well the 13th floor. The empire state building has one.

With that said some of nyc s most famous buildings do have 13th floors. In fact the otis elevators company estimates that 85 of the buildings with their elevators don t have a named 13th floor. The company found that out of 629 buildings with 13 or more floors only 55 labeled the 13th floor as the 13th floor. Elizabethmc answer has 2 votes elizabethmc 17 year member 346 replies.

That means only 9 percent of the condos that actually have 13th floors label. Skyscrapers did not come about until 1885. These are mostly newer buildings which did away with the old superstition.