Pentagon Informative Essay

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The historical landmark I chose for this project was the Pentagon because I think it is a very important landmark in history. the point of the Pentagon was to hire lots of people to help WWII with defense, so the Americans could win the war. There are a lot of events the Pentagon commemorates. One event is the attack on the twin towers on 9/11/01. Another event was the attack on the Pentagon its self on 9/11/01 too. This landmark honors all the soldiers in WWII and the people who built it. the Architect who designed the building name was G. Edwin Bergstrom. Because of all the roads around the Pentagon, he had to make the shape a Pentagon. The whole Pentagon costed a total of 18 million and took around 16 months to build and it was built in 1943. the building has been in place for about 73 years. the Pentagon stands at 73 feet tall and from wall to wall the Pentagon is 921 feet long. …show more content…

The Pentagon is made of concrete and steel. there are more than 6 million square feet of floor in the Pentagon. It is also one of the biggest buildings in the whole world. There are 284 bathrooms inside the Pentagon. The reason behind this is because back then when they were designing the Pentagon they were planning to make bathrooms for blacks and whites. that is why there are so many bathrooms in the Pentagon. Also the Pentagon has 5,100,000 square feet of space, which is double the amount of space the Empire state building has in it. Believe it or not the Pentagon has no elevators inside it. to get from floor to floor the workers inside the Pentagon they have to go up and down big ramps. they did this so they could conserve steel during WWII. Before 9/11 happened the Pentagon’s nickname was “ground zero” because if god forbid a nuclear war happened, it was believed that the Soviets would target the Pentagon first before any other

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