“My invention consists of a building in the form of an animal, the body of which is floored and divided into rooms…the legs contain the stairs which leads to the body…”
In Love with Lucy the Elephant of Margate City (LINK)
According to The History of Lucy, a booklet written by William McMahon together with the Save the Lucy Committee, that is the wording on the original 1882 patent application submitted by James V. Lafferty, Jr., the designer and builder of Lucy.
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