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DESCRIPTION: The collor is white. it is 88,860 square feet. The height is 1,472feet to top of antennae. 1,250 feet to 102nd floor observatory. 1,050 feet to 86th floor observator. It has 6,500 windows. The world's tollest building in the world for more than forty years.
WHY IS THIS STRUCTURE IMPORTANT TODAY? It's one of the most important offices right now and it's one of the seven worders of the modern world. What is used for? for officers and tourists to come to see it.
WHAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE TODAY? The tallest building in the world until of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan in 1972.
WHEN WAS IT BUICT? Began in January 22, 1930 before demolition of old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel completed.. HOW WAS IT BUICT? 7millions man hours. 3,400 workers. 5,7000 tons of steel. 7,000,000 man hours HOW CONG DID IT TAKE TO BUILT? 1 years,, 45 days of work including Sumdays and holiudays
LOCATION: New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th street.
WHY WAS IT BUILT? They needed thats commercial offices
COMMENTS OR IDEAS It was finished right before the beginning of the Great Depresion.. Five workers died during it's contraction.
FACTS May 1, 1931, by President Herdert Hoover who presses a button in Washington, D.C. to turn on the building lights. Work force: 3,400 during peak periods.
BUILDER: Starrett Brothers and Eken. Laid by Alfred E. Smith, September 17, !930.
THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
