OK, I'm only doing this once! You know, it took three years to build this thing and was finished in 1887.... Anyone ever heard of Elisha Otis? He invented the "Improvement in Hoisting Apparatus" in 1853 and the first Otis elevator was installed at 488 Broadway in NYC on 3/23/1857! The first electric elevator was in 1880 - Come on guys, the light house was already $200,000 bucks, what's a few grand more? COME ON!