Lucy_The_Elephant

Lucy The Elephant Lucy the Elephant is located in Margate, NJ. She was built in 1881 by James V. Lafferty, a real estate developer with a gift for promotion. Standing six stories tall, weighing 90 tons, covered with 12,000 square feet of sheet metal, Lucy was more than an object of fright, she was a functioning building, serving first as a hotel, then as a tavern. Since 1973 enough money has been collected in determined "Save Lucy" campaigns to restore the structural uprightness and exterior of the 90-ton wood-and-tin pachyderm. The main room inside Lucy is 18 feet square, and 22 windows pierce Lucy's frame. The body is 38 feet long by 80 feet in circumference. Lucy's neck is 6 feet long by 48 feet in circumference; the legs are 22 feet long by 10 feet in diameter. Lucy's ears are 17 feet long by 10 feet wide; each one weighs approximately 2,000 pounds. Lucy's tusks are 22 feet long, the tail is 26 feet long and the eyes are 18 inches in diameter. Lucy is supported by timber framing concealed in the trunk and for legs; Lucy’s original primary structure consisted of three timber trusses. There was one longitudinal truss on each side feet, lucy, lucy's, long, one, room, legs, each, body, tour, margate, main, lucy’s, built, 22, trusses, truss, timber, supported, structure, square, save, restore, rear, proud, pachyderm, national, money, longitudinal, interior, inside, innards, howdah, gift, framing, form