Worlds’s Lucy the Elephant
Title:Worlds’s Lucy the Elephant
Location:Margate City, NJ
Description:Lucy is the world’s largest elephant, and the only one in America designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Location:Margate City, NJ
Description:Lucy is the world’s largest elephant, and the only one in America designated as a National Historic Landmark.
She was built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty, a real estate developer with a knack for promotion. Standing six stories tall, weighing 90 tons, covered with 12,000 square feet of sheet tin, Lucy was more than an object of awe — she was a functioning building, serving first as a real estate office, as a summer home, even briefly as a tavern, until unruly drunks nearly burned her down. She also gave people a reason to come to Margate City while Lafferty gave his real estate pitch.
