EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

in central Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Ave. between 33d St. and 34th St. It was designed by the firm of Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon and built in 1930–31. For many years its 102 stories (1,250 ft/381 m high) made it the tallest building in the world. The construction of the World Trade Center ended its reign as the world's and the city's highest skyscraper, but it regained the latter distinction through misfortune when the Trade Center was destroyed (2001) by a terrorist attack. An office building, the Empire State Building accommodates some 25,000 tenants. On a very clear day the view from its highest observation tower embraces an area with a circumference of nearly 200 mi (320 km).

See study by J. Tauranac (1995); C. Willis, ed., Building the Empire State (1998).

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New York: A Guide to the Empire State
Book by New York State Writers' Program; Oxford University Press, 1940
Subjects: New York (State), New York (State)--Guidebooks
...Countryside By DIXON RYAN FOX the Empire State it would gratify the people of...300,000 a mile. In 1926 the State began building its own bridges, and its engineers...potatoes, or anything else the Empire State label pasted on the box or bag...
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Empire: A Tale of Obsession, Betrayal, and the Battle for an American Icon
Book by Mitchell Pacelle; Wiley, 2001
Subjects: Businesspeople--Japan, Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.), Real Estate Developers--Japan, Real Estate Developers--New York (State)--New York, Real Estate Development--New York (State)--New York
...1. Yokoi, Hideki, 1913- 2. Empire State Building (New York, N.Y.) 3. Real...10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Empire State Building design is a registered trademark of the Empire State Building Company. To Laura CONTENTS...
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Modernity at the Edge of Empire: State, Individual, and Nation in the Northern Peruvian Andes, 1885-1935
Book by David Nugent; Stanford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Chachapoyas (Peru : Province)--Politics And Government--Case Studies, Chachapoyas (Peru : Province)--Social Conditions--Case Studies, National State--Case Studies, Nationalism--Peru--Chachapoyas (Province)--History--Case Studies
...a key moment in the process of state-building, as only in its aftermath were...confronts most discussions of state-building and nation-making with an important...scenario invoked by most analysts of state-building and nation-making. The present...
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The Empire State at War: World War II
Book by Karl Drew Hartzwell; State of New York, 1949
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--New York (State)
...Harbor, fell the task of building up the War Council organization on both State and local levels. To...Illustrations for "The Empire State at War...meeting held in the State Education Building, this plan was presented...
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State Building and Late Development
Book by David Waldner; Cornell University Press, 1999
Subjects: Korea--Politics And Government, State, The, Syria--Politics And Government, Taiwan--Politics And Government, Turkey--Politics And Government
...exemplars of each of these approaches to state building, see, respectively, Michael Mann...Anderson, Lineages of the Absolutist State London: Verso, 1974 ; and Max Weber...Genghis Khan is reported to have said, an empire cannot be ruled on horseback. See the...
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Joanna Lewis, Empire State-Building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52
Journal article by Chloe Campbell; Africa, Vol. 72, 2002
Subjects: Empire State-building: War and Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52 (Book)
Joanna Lewis, Empire State-Building: War and Welfare in Kenya...Campbell JOANNA LEWIS, Empire State-building: war and welfare in Kenya...authority hindered the project of empire state-building in the colonies. The specific...
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Turban or Hat, Seminarian or Soldier: State Building and Clergy Building in Reza Shah's Iran
Journal article by Arang Keshavarzian; Journal of Church and State, Vol. 45, 2003
Subjects: Church & state, Clergy, Iran, Islam, Social classes
...the Russian Empire; yet, domestically...the nation-state was non-existent...reduce state building to mere changes...nation-state building to competition between state forms (empires, city-states...remains of the empire were replaced...modernity-the nation-state. CARVING...event. State-building is an interactive...
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State Building and the Non-Nation-State
Journal article by Joel S. Migdal; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: Israel--Political aspects, United States--Political aspects
State Building and the Non-Nation-State. by Joel...20th century, old empires crumbled, producing...DOUBLE WHAMMY OF BUILDING NEW STATES IN THE...witnessed three waves of state creation, each involving the collapse of empires and each generating...
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Decolonization and State Building in South Asia
Journal article by Sumantra Bose; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: India--Political aspects, Pakistan--Political aspects, Sri Lanka--Political aspects
...choices in realms of public policy central to nation building and state stability. Where such assets are weak or nonexistent...Ceylon was administered separately from Britains Indian empire, which was succeeded in August 1947 by two Dominions...
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A Failure That Transformed Russia; the 1991-94 Democratic State-Building Experiment in Chechnya
Journal article by Anatoly V. Isaenko, Peter W. Petschauer; International Social Science Review, 2000
Subjects: Central-local government relations--Russia, Chechnya, Russia--Politics and government, Democracy--Russia, Russia--Politics and government
...ethnic conflicts define as "principal building blocks of ethnicity."(14) One of the...Chechen-Ingushetian Republic is a Sovereign State, that has been created as a result of...as an appendage of the colonial Russian Empire." They argued that in order to attain...
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75 Years Tall: An Empire Vast and Secure
Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 30, Summer 2006
Subjects: Anniversaries--Reports, Empire State Building--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, High rise buildings--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Skyscrapers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Tall buildings--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...Empire Vast and Secure. The Empire State Buildings 75th anniversary, on May 1...light over several moments of Empire State Building history. When the skyscraper...Wright rejoiced. He termed the Empire State Building "a tomb that will mark the...
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Tall Tale: Empire Is a Familiar Tale of Ego, Greed and Folly, but the Grotesquery of the Parties Involved Provides High Drama and Low Comedy
Magazine article by Rex Roberts; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, May 13, 2002
Subjects: Commercial buildings--Economic aspects, Empire State Building--Economic aspects, New York, New York--Buildings, facilities, etc.
...by Rex Roberts The Empire State Building once again is the tallest...real-estate trophies made the Empire State Building a singular obsession." That...foggy Saturday morning -- the Empire State Building finally began to make money...
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Empire State: Local Boy Made Good Sean Griffiths Recalls His Life in Liverpool and How the City Marks Its Inhabitants
Magazine article by Sean Griffiths; The Architectural Review, Vol. 223, January 2008
Subjects: Architecture--Evaluation, Liverpool, England--History
...three great buildings on the waterfront...city of the Empire. Reminders of...the British Empires and Liverpools demise. Those buildings were short-sightedly...and the Liver Building famously pioneered...Liverpool, a city of Empire, should be subject...
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First among Thirds: Since 1998, New York's Working Families Party Has Been That Rare Thing: A Third Party That Doesn't Run Spoilers and Has Real-World Impact. Now, the Party Is Testing the Waters beyond the Empire State
Magazine article by Greg Sargent; The American Prospect, Vol. 17, May 2006
Subjects: Cantor, Dan--Political activity, New York, New York--Political activity, Working Families Party (New York)--Political activity
...since used it as a backdoor way of building power. New Yorks Conservative...voters are outnumbered in New York State by Democrats by a 5-to-3 majority...dozens of local races across the state, slowly building a party infrastructure. Visibility...
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The Thinning Ranks of America's Gun Dealers
Magazine article by John Elvin; Insight on the News, Vol. 13, April 7, 1997
Subjects: Empire State Building--Crime, Firearms ownership--Laws, regulations, etc., Gun control--Public opinion, Shooting--New York, New York
...shooting of seven tourists on the Empire State Buildings observation deck again rallied...sale of firearms, such as the Empire State Building Handgun Act of 1997, offered...a shooting spree atop the Empire State Building before turning the gun on...
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Skyscraper Bargain; Empire State Sold for Modest $57.5 Million
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 20, 2002
Subjects: Empire State Building
...investor will buy the 70-year old Empire State Building for a relatively modest $57...But Mr. Malkins group, Empire State Building Associates, bought the master...attacks, Mr. Riker said. The Empire State Building hasnt escaped tragedy. In...
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Empire State Maniac Shoots 8
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 24, 1997
Subjects: Empire State Building
...gunman went on the rampage at the top of the Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring another seven...Despite the fact that its no longer the tallest building in the world, the Empire State still attracts thousands of visitors every...
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'Welsh Answer to the Empire State Building' South Wales' Biggest Construction Project Came a Step Closer to Completion Yesterday as Cardiff's St David's 2 Held Its 'Topping Out' Ceremony. BEN GLAZE Reports
Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), January 28, 2009
Subjects: Lewis, John
Welsh Answer to the Empire State Building South Wales Biggest Construction...as iconic as Big Ben or the Empire State Building, its backer has claimed. St...heritage. New York has the Empire State Building, London Big Ben and St Pauls...
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WALES: New York Flies the Flag for the Best of Welsh Culture; Empire State Building Takes on Red Dragon Hue
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), February 25, 2006
...the Best of Welsh Culture; Empire State Building Takes on Red Dragon Hue...Affairs Correspondent AMERICAS Empire State Building will be lit up in the colours...products. The idea of bathing the Empire State Building - at one time the tallest...
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WALES: I'll Rock Snowdon, Everest and the Empire State Building; MUSICIAN PLANS HIGH-RISE THANK-YOU GIGS
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 13, 2007
...Rock Snowdon, Everest and the Empire State Building; MUSICIAN PLANS HIGH-RISE...concert at the top of the iconic Empire State Building in New York. He also announced...Hoyle, consultant. Right, the Empire State Building in New York, where he also...
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Empire State Building
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING in central Manhattan, New York...attack. An office building, the Empire State Building accommodates some 25,000 tenants...Tauranac (1995); C. Willis, ed., Building the Empire State (1998...
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Chrysler Building
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...until the completion (1931) of the Empire State Building , the Chrysler was the worlds tallest building. Comprised of 77 stories and 1,048 ft (319 m) tall, this steel-framed office building is a stepped tower with two primary setbacks...
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New York , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of Thomas Macdonough over the British on Lake Champlain at Plattsburgh. The state continued its development, which was quickened and broadened by the building of the Erie Canal. The canal, completed in 1825, and railroad lines constructed...
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Illinois , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Nicknames, Inland Empire; Prairie State. Motto, State Sovereignty...in the days of canal building, played a big part in...Chicago in 1847 and the building of the railroads in the...Lincoln began. In the state legislature, Lincoln...
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Minnesota , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...friendly to the French and contributed to the fur-trading empire of New France. Minnesota remained excellent country...exert a great influence on the cultural life of the state. The building (1851 53) of the Soo Ship Canal at Sault Ste. Marie...
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