Tallest in the world for 41 years and saved by King Kong… Location: 350 5th Ave between 33rd and 34th Streets Built: 1931 Architect: William F. Lamb of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon The first in the world to rise over 100 stories, and constructed in mere 14 months, the Empire State Building stood as the…
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Consuelo Vanderbilt – A Wedding on Fifth Avenue
The main American export of the Gilded Age was not the dry goods, not the elevators, not trains, not even technology… it was the American bride. Refined, educated, and groomed for every social situation, exquisitely dressed, beautiful and fantastically wealthy the American heiresses, joined in matrimony with the English aristocracy, formed a seemingly perfect union…