Lucy the Elephant
Margate City, United States
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Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped structure of wood frame and tin cladding, built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey. Conceived as a novelty architecture project designed to promote real estate sales and attract tourists to the area, Lucy stands as the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in the United States. The building is listed on both the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places, and holds designation as a National Historic Landmark.
Architect
Movement
- Built
- Type
- building, monument
- Heritage
- listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, National Register of Historic Places listed place
- Place
- Margate City, United States
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