Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.: Lucy the Elephant

The Saturday Evening Post, April 1978

In 1881, James V. Lafferty was granted by the U.S. Patent Office a 17-year period to make animal-shaped buildings. He lost no time, and in the same year constructed Lucy, a six-storey high piece of novelty architecture. In 1969, Lucy was rescued from demolition and restored. In 1978 Lucy was made a National Historic Landmark.