“The whole project took an amazing twenty months from the signing of the first architectural contract in September 1929 to the formal opening on May 1, 1931. The construction was completed in an astonishing 410 days. The final cost was $40,948,900, equivalent to $635,021,563 in 2015. As of 2007, it was still the second largest single office complex in the U.S. after the Pentagon. Immortalized in innumerable books and movies, it was most famously scaled by King Kong, who fended off attacking planes from its celestial spire, in 1933.”
Smithsonianmag.com/us-history/empire-state-building-1929-31-180957195/?no-ist
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