3400 workers
It was built to be the tallest building in the world (at its time.)
True Fact: William Frederick Lamb. He was in a competition making the Empire State Building the tallest building in the world.
Herbert Hoover
Did you know that the workers were 1 month ahead of schedule for finishing the empire state building. They were also $5 million under budget. That means they thought it was $10 million to build the empire state building, but instead, it was only $5 million!
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It took 410 days, which is one year and 45 days to build the Empire State Building. That was over 200,000 hours of labor, during the course of roughly 14 months, to build what was the tallest building at that time.
It took approximately 1.5 years to build
The Empire State Building was built in a time when the major companies of New York City were competing for the biggest building. It stands 1,454 feet tall.. These competitive purposes were to keep in style with the Eifel Tower of France. Most architects around the world, particularly American ones saw the Eifel Tower as a taunt.
The Empire State Building is pretty tall, man, so obviously to build one taller would take longer than the Empire State Building took.
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