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Episode 43: The Woolworth Building
Paid for in cash with the nickels and dimes of a retail empire, the Woolworth Building was a 792-foot Gothic miracle. Hope explores Frank Woolworth’s rise from a failed shopkeeper to a skyscraper titan, pulling the file on the "sky boys" who built it and the eccentric tenants—like Nikola Tesla—who called it home.
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