More on the Woolworth Building's 100th Anniversary

An architect friend has sent me a link to a special video about the 100th Anniversary of the Woolworth Building ( President Woodrow Wilson presided at its opening ceremonies back in 1913...)

To  give away just a little of this (spoiler alert!)

Eighty thousand incandescent bulbs illuminated the New York night on April 24, 1913, when the Woolworth Building opened with a ceremony as fantastic as the structure itself. President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button in the White House that simultaneously lit every interior floor and the brilliant tower beacon. Witnessed by multitudes and wired to press around the world, the spectacle was a career-crowning achievement for the tower's owner, the five-and-dime store king Frank W. Woolworth, who paid for the skyscraper with his personal fortune and took a hands-on role in every decision of its design. 

http://skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/WOOLWORTH/video_intro.php