The skyscraper opened on the night of April 24, 1913, when President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button in the White House, lighting up 80 thousand incandescent bulbs in the Woolworth Building including twenty 1,000-watt lamps on the tower's crown. Built by five-and-dime store king Frank W. Woolworth, it was designed by architect Cass Gilbert and would become the tallest building in the world. Dubbed the "Cathedral of Commerce" after its neo-gothic ornament and iconic silhouette, the facade was clad in glazed terra-cotta, molded into gothic crockets, pinnacles, and gargoyles. The