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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8245621, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1930s Empire State Building</b></font></p><p><b>and State Seal Medal</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452034[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452035[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know much about this medal, who or exactly when it was made. Maybe a souvenir sold within the building.</p><p>It is bronze and about an inch in diameter.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452036[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The Chrysler Building (left) is an Art Deco–style skyscraper located on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan.</p><p>The building was formally opened on May 27, 1930. It is my favorite skyscraper in the world.</p><p>At 1,046 feet, the structure was the world&#039;s tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Empire State Building (right) is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Construction completed in 1931 and opened on May 1st, thirteen and a half months after the first steel beam was erected.</p><p>The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet and stands a total of 1,454 feet tall, including its antenna.</p><p>Its name is derived from &quot;Empire State&quot;, the nickname of New York.</p><p><br /></p><p>The site of the Empire State Building, located on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was originally part of an early 18th century farm.</p><p>In the late 1820s, it came into the possession of the prominent Astor family, with John Jacob Astor&#039;s descendants building the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel on the site in the 1890s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original design of the Empire State Building was for a 50-story office building.</p><p>However, after fifteen revisions, the final design was for a 86-story 1,250-foot building, with an airship mast on top.</p><p>This ensured it would be the world&#039;s tallest building, beating the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street, two other Manhattan skyscrapers under construction at the time that were also vying for that distinction.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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