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All About Architecture!
Then and Now
Facts and figures
100

Address of Empire State Building

What is 20 W34th Street, New York, New York, 10001?

100

Architecture firm that designed the building

What is Shreve, Lamb, Harmon and associates?
100

Grand opening

What is May 1, 1931?
100

Height of ESB

What is 1454 feet tall?

200

Neighborhood ESB is in

What is Midtown Manhattan?

200

Style of architecture+ interior design

Art Deco

200

Length of construction

What is 410 days?

200

Amount of stories

What is 102?

300

The building used to be

What is the Waldorf Astoria Hotel?

300

Structural system used

What is steel frame?

300

Original and current use of ESB

What is landmark attraction and office building?

300

Amount of stairs to reach top

What is 1,872?

400

States that can be seen from the observatories

What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, and Massachusetts?

400

Materials used for facade

What is stainless steel, bricks, aluminum, limestone, and granite?

400

Height of spire added to make it tallest building in the world

What is 222 feet?

400

Visitors per year

What is about 4 million?

500

Types of people living in this area when ESB was built

What are high society, upper class New Yorkers?

500

Restored during Empire State ReBuilding initiative?

What is damaged marble, glassworks, and light fixtures?

500

Iconic addition in 1976

What is the Tower Lights?

500

How often the antenna is struck by lightning

What is 25 times per year?

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