Honest, Abe! Believe it or not, the Lincoln Building was not named after the 16th president of the United States, but rather after the firm that built it in 1930: Lincoln Storage Warehouse Company.

So why and how did the "Seated Lincoln" sculpture come to be the focal point of the building lobby?

Lawrence A. Wien, Wien & Malkin's founder, bought the skyscraper in 1954. "Mr. Wien never considered changing the name," says Fred Posniak, senior vice president of Wien & Malkin. Instead, recognizing the widespread appeal of Abraham Lincoln's image, he purchased a model created by sculptor Daniel Chester French to design the huge statue in Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial. The model was then installed in the lobby near the building's 42nd Street entrance, where it still stands today, linking the identity of the skyscraper with that of the great president.