This early Parker Brothers Game might be one of the earliest games (outside of Bingo) to give each player their own board. Everyone is trying to develop their own district with residences, churches, public buildings, and a 5-story skyscraper. The components include painted/colored wood blocks for the buildings!

The designer published the game himself, and then Parker Brothers bought it and reprinted it. It is not known if the two versions differ.

This game is an icon in American Boardgame History.

It's reflected by example that it is part of the permanent Art Deco exhibition of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami.
As it's said in a newspaper article: "Other objects in the museum reflect boosterish optimism and an obsession with being "modern," such as the Skyscraper Game, a 1937 Parker Brothers board game that invited you to create your own miniature Manhattan."

It's arguably one of the most beautiful boardgames ever produced.
At the first glance it looks like a wooden block toy for little children, but it's not.
Accordingly to its inscription at the box cover it is aimed right at the adult market, which is a rarity for a game of the time it was produced.

Looking at it in modern times it can be played with children of 8 years upwards, but it's still today sheer fun to build up "your own miniature Manhattan"!