For Elephant Appreciation Day: On Several Elephant-Shaped Buildings
It’s Elephant Appreciation Day, a perfect occasion to reflect upon that bygone architectural oddity, the elephant-shaped hotel/ observation statue. There were four of them I know of, all of them famous landmarks (in their own time and long afterward). Philadelphia-born inventor and developer James V. Lafferty (1856-1898) came up with the concept it and patented […]