Lucy the Elephant

Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped wood frame and tin clad building, constructed in 1881 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey.

Photo: Dtcdthingy, Public domain.

Type: Tourist attraction
Description: six-story elephant-shaped building in New Jersey, United States
Address: 9200 Atlantic Avenue, Margate City, NJ 08402

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Church of the Redeemer.

Church of the Redeemer

Church

Photo: Smallbones, CC0.

Church of the Redeemer, built in 1908, was a historic church located at 20th and Atlantic Avenues in the borough of Longport in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. Church of the Redeemer is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Lucy the Elephant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Margate and Seaview Harbor.

Margate

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Margate, officially Margate City, is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Margate is on Absecon Island, a few miles west of Atlantic City. It borders Ventnor City to the east, and Longport to the west.

Seaview Harbor

Hamlet

Photo: Hurricanehink, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Seaview Harbor is a harbor and an unincorporated community located within Egg Harbor Township in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Ventnor City

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Ventnor City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Ventnor is on the center of Absecon Island. This island consists of Ventnor, Margate, Longport and Atlantic City.

Lucy the Elephant

Categories: monument, building, and tourism
Location: City of Margate City, Atlantic County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.32084° or 39° 19′ 15″ north

Longitude

-74.51159° or 74° 30′ 42″ west

Elevation

7 feet (2 metres)

Inception

1882

Height

65 feet (20 metres)

Open location code

87F78FCQ+89

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1352096419

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

Wikidata ID

Q1873754

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Portuguese—“Lucy the Elephant” goes by many names.

Chinese: “大象露絲”
Chinese: “大象露西”
Chinese: “露西大象”
Finnish: “Lucy the Elephant”
French: “Lucy the Elephant”
German: “Elefantenhotel”
German: “Elephant Bazaar”
German: “Lucy (Bauwerk)”
German: “Lucy”
Japanese: “象のルーシー”
Portuguese: “Lucy o elefante”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Margate City Fire Department Station 1 and Congo Falls Adventure Golf.

Nearby Places

Explore places such as Ventura’s Greenhouse and Margate City Beach Patrol.

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