By Allan Cornford
Copyright © 2022 Allan Cornford. (Standard Copyright License.) All rights reserved. Independently Published through KDP. The images which are included for informative purposes only, are Screenshots, courtesy of Ewaranon’s YouTube documentary; ‘The Lost History of the Flat Earth’. All external links to images in the public domain, are courtesy from Wikimedia Commons and where possible, credits are given to each source. This I believe, comes under the term of Fair Use.
Jon Levi Productions have several documentaries on YouTube exploring the partial ruins of many of the large masonry structures which are found in a number of American states.
There appears little or no difference between these ruins and the monumental ruins seen at the ancient site of Pompeii.
Why?
I recently watched a short documentary about the Erie Canal in America, in which the producer and narrator raised some interesting but pertinent questions.
For this canal could not possibly have been constructed within the time period and in the manner, we are told.
Reasoning and the use of logic is all that’s required to see through the glaring holes in the official narrative.
The original canal was 363 miles long, running from the Hudson River at Albany to Lake Erie in Buffalo.
We’re told its construction began in 1817, and it opened 8 years later on October 26, 1825.
The channel was dug with pick and shovel, plow and scraper, 40 feet wide and 4 feet deep, with removed soil piled on the downhill side to form a towpath.
363 miles over 8 years equates to 45.375 miles per year, or one mile every 8 days.
Seriously?
Being conservative by assuming all the dirt was dry, approximately 31,288 cubic yards weighing a little over 32,000 tons was excavated every 8 days?
4,000 tons each day?
Without the use of automated machinery and only small rectangular carts hauled by oxen or mules, which were limited to a 250-pound load?
Are you starting to get the picture here?
Yes, I know, it’s an impossible one.
And that’s just the excavation work, for the sides of the canal were then lined with stone set in clay, and the bottom was also lined with clay.
It wasn’t just the mammoth task of digging each day, that the early settlers had to contend with, they also had to fell hundreds of trees as they passed through swathes of virgin forest.
They constructed 32 complicated aqueducts, one being 950 feet long to span an 800-foot river, as well as building 34 complex, numbered lock systems.
They also had to pass through the Niagara escarpment, an 80-foot wall of hard limestone, necessitating the building of five locks along a 3-mile corridor to carry the canal over the escarpment.
To achieve this they used black, or gun powder, the earliest known chemical explosive, to blast through the rock, as dynamite was not yet invented.
Can anyone seriously believe the official mainstream narrative?
Could it be that the early settlers merely inherited this incredible feat of engineering from its previous and unknown constructors?
That having taken the credit for it, the ”official” narrative is the best the controllers of world history could come up with?
In fact, it’s highly likely that the world’s entire canal construction narrative has been fabricated.
We certainly have the ability to construct waterways, magnificent buildings and highly elaborate architecture, but the timeline many were supposedly built in i.e. during, or barely beyond the horse and cart era, just doesn’t add up or make sense.
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t.
A big puzzle is, why so many of the cities monumental structures in North America were razed to the ground and repurposed just a few decades after they were completed.
Was it an effort to hide evidence of the constructional ability of a previous advanced civilization?
If so, who exactly were the original builders of these remarkable and in many cases, almost impossible structures?
Completed in 1910, Manhattan’s historic Pennsylvania Station or Penn Station enabled direct rail access to New York City from the south for the first time.
Its head house and train shed were considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of New York City.
The station contained 11 platforms serving 21 tracks, in approximately the same layout as the current Penn Station.
This magnificent station was originally constructed on 8 acres of land and was a half a mile long sitting on two whole city blocks.
Described as a neoclassical masterpiece of elegant, pink granite marble columns, and massive arched-glass windows, the structure was made of:
- 490,000 cubic feet of pink granite
- 60,000 cubic feet of interior stone
- 27,000 tons of steel
- 48,000 tons of brick
and 30,000 light bulbs.
(Credit: Wikipedia)
The pink granite alone weighed around 24,500 Tons.
And this during a time of:
- blocks
- pulleys
- ropes
and chains, and the earliest steam powered locomotive crane with lattice boom.
At its completion, the New York Times (August 29, 1910) called it
“the largest building in the world ever built at one time.”
Inspired by Roman architecture, the expansive waiting room, which spanned Penn Station’s entire length contained traveler amenities such as:
- long benches
- men’s and women’s smoking lounges
- newspaper stands
- telephone and telegraph booths
and baggage windows.
The waiting room itself measured 314 feet 4 inches (95.81 m) long, 108 feet 8 inches (33.12m) wide, and 150 feet (46m) tall.
Additional waiting rooms for men and women, each measuring 100 feet by 58 feet (30m by 18m), were on either side of the main waiting room.
The ceiling was supported by massive Corinthian columns, set on pedestals, each measuring 59.5 feet (18.1 m) tall from the tops of the pedestals to the tops of the capitals.
There were three semicircular windows on top of the waiting room’s walls; each had a radius of 38 feet 4 inches (11.68.m)
[Credit Wikipedia]
Little wonder historian Jill Jonnes called the original edifice a
“great Doric temple to transportation”
whilst others described the station as;
”grand a corporate statement in stone, glass and sculpture as one could imagine.”
And there it stood, in all its glory, until it was torn down due to multiple train cancellations, a foul smell, and many false rumors 50 years after completion.
At the time it was said;
“One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.”
At which point, one also begins to smell a rat.
Land purchases for the station started in 1901, a mere two years since Alexander Winton from Cleveland, Ohio, sold his first manufactured semi-truck in 1899.
Not sure about you, but personally I think 2 years is cutting it a bit fine for the logistics of the mammoth transportation project that lay ahead.
500 buildings had to be demolished to make way for the station, and a $5 million contract to excavate the site was duly awarded in 1903.
We are left to wonder on the size and the architectural style of the 500 destroyed buildings?
Over 3,000,000 cubic yards (2,300,000m3) of dirt was excavated during construction, which if my calculation is correct equates to 4,500,000 imperial tons.
Imagine how many Irish settlers armed with picks and shovels, it took to shift four and a half million tons of dirt and debris by horse and cart.
Whilst a few color depictions (artist impressions) of the original excavation site can be found online, I’ve been unable to find any images of the excavation work in progress.
The fact this incredible feat of architecture once stood in New York is not in question.
But it’s hard to find evidence that it was constructed as per the official record states.
For there is no way of telling from the available photographs, whether they were taken during its construction, or during the demolition process.
Even if it were built at the time we’re told, the loss of this magnificent structure after just a few decades, like many others to boot, seems both unnecessary and even quite sad.
Ada Louise Huxtable (née Landman; March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was an American architecture critic and writer on architecture. Huxtable established architecture and urban design journalism in North America and raised the public’s awareness of the urban environment. In 1970, she was awarded the first ever Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. In 1981, she was named a MacArthur Fellow. Architecture critic Paul Goldberger, also a Pulitzer Prize-winner (1984) for architectural criticism, said in 1996: “Before Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture was not a part of the public dialogue.” “She was a great lover of cities, a great preservationist and the central planet around which every other critic revolved,” said architect Robert A. M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
Ada Louise Huxtable wrote in the New York Times in 1963:
The tragedy is that our present age not only could not produce such a building but could not even maintain it.
It would seem Ms. Huxtable also smelt a rat and realized the impossibility of the official narrative.
A building that could not be constructed in ”our present age”, let alone be maintained.
Hard to believe, but the majestic structure known as Penn Station, like many other remarkable buildings across America and Europe, was more likely an inherited, renovated and redesignated structure that was already there, having originally been constructed at an earlier date in the old world?
The official narrative surrounding the construction of New York’s Hudson Terminal, is equally dubious.
Designed in the Romanesque Revival style, and built during 1908-1909, this incredible structure also included two 22-story office skyscrapers and three basement levels.
Yet another architectural wonder that was demolished a little over 60 years later, in 1971-72.
According to the official narrative, excavations at the site of the office tower buildings were underway by early 1907, and the first columns for the substructure were placed in May 1907.
Eleven months later, on April 4, 1908, tenants started moving into the towers.
The station itself opened the following year on July 19, 1909.
A little over two years to construct this huge and elaborate rail terminus which included two 22-story towers?
I really don’t think so!
Construction began on Manhattan’s 47-floor Singer Building in 1897 and built in multiple stages it was completed in 1908.
The Singer Building (also known as the Singer Tower) was an office building and early skyscraper at the northwestern corner of Liberty Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Serving as the headquarters of the Singer Manufacturing Company, it was commissioned by the company’s leader Frederick Gilbert Bourne and designed by architect Ernest Flagg in multiple phases from 1897 to 1908. The building’s architecture contained elements of the Beaux-Arts and French Second Empire styles.
The building’s architecture was once again visually stunning, containing elements of the Beaux-Arts and French Second Empire styles.
Why was it razed to the ground 60 years later in 1968?
We are told that the asymmetrical L-shaped 26-storey City Investing Building, which was capped by a seven-story central portion with gable roofs, took only 2 years to complete.
One only has to look at the available photographs to see this would have been an impossible feat.
Building started in 1906, and it opened in 1908 with about 12 acres (520,000 sq ft) of floor area, becoming one of New York City’s largest office buildings at the time.
Just like the Singer Building, the City Investing Building was completely demolished 60 years later, in 1968.
The City Investing Building, also known as the Broadway–Cortlandt Building and the Benenson Building, was an office building and early skyscraper in Manhattan, New York. Serving as the headquarters of the City Investing Company, it was on Cortlandt Street between Church Street and Broadway in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. The building was designed by Francis Kimball and constructed by the Hedden Construction Company.
With construction beginning in 1896, and completion in 1897, the 273 feet tall Gillender Building fared far worse by comparison.
The Gillender Building was an early skyscraper in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City. It stood on the northwest corner of Wall Street and Nassau Street, on a narrow strip of land measuring 26 by 73 feet (7.9 m × 22.3 m). At the time of its completion in 1897, the Gillender Building was, depending on ranking methods, the fourth- or eighth-tallest structure in New York City.
With 20 story’s (comprising 17 floors in the main bulk and three floors in a cupola atop the capitol), this building proudly stood in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York, for merely 13 years before its destruction in 1910.
Maybe this was due to a 20-story building with a rentable floor space area of 37,000 square feet, being constructed in a single year?
This supposed historical ”fact” recorded by Wikipedia and most other sources is unbelievable, and little more than a Fairy Tale.
So, what was really going on at the time?
Could it be that too many people were starting to ask some difficult questions?
Was it easier to demolish many of these buildings, rather than provide realistic answers?
For it would be impossible to justify the construction of a highly elaborate 20-story building over a 12-month period.
An Enigma In more recent years, construction of the 1,500 feet high John Hancock Center began in 1965 and was completed 4 years later in 1969.
Construction of the 1,450-foot Willis (Sears) Tower, began in 1970 and was completed 4 years later in 1974.
The Willis Tower, formerly and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), it opened in 1973 as the world’s tallest building, a title that it held for nearly 25 years. It is the third-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the 23rd-tallest in the world. Each year, more than 1.7 million people visit the Skydeck observation deck, the highest in the United States, making it one of Chicago’s most popular tourist destinations.
Construction of the 26-storey Skyline Plaza condominium building in Fairfax County, Virginia, began in early 1970, and was due to open three and a half years later in August 1973.
Sadly, the building collapsed in March 1973, killing 14 workmen and injuring many more.
Skyline Towers collapse – Wikipedia
Construction on The Shard, a 72-story building in London, began in March 2009.
It was completed a little over 3.5 years later in November 2012.
Standing at 1,550 feet, construction began on Central Park Tower on September 17, 2014.
It was completed 5 years to the day later, on September 17, 2019.
Construction of the 1,066 feet Brooklyn Tower began in 2018, with estimated completion 4 years later in 2022.
The Brooklyn Tower (originally referred to as 340 Flatbush Avenue Extension and as 9 DeKalb Avenue) is a supertall mixed-use, primarily residential skyscraper in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. Developed by JDS Development Group, it is situated on the north side of DeKalb Avenue near Flatbush Avenue. The main portion of the skyscraper is a 74-story, 1,066-foot (325 m) residential structure designed by SHoP Architects and built from 2018 to 2022. Preserved at the skyscraper’s base is the Dime Savings Bank Building, designed by Mowbray and Uffinger, which dates to the 1900s.
I’ve never worked in the construction industry, but these buildings are all unique and require engineering based on their design and soil conditions.
I doubt the length of time it takes to build them can be reasonably estimated without any parameters or conditions.
Nevertheless, from the few examples listed above, I think it can be fairly well established, that the minimum amount of time it takes to build a skyscraper today, ranges from three and a half years to five years.
Some take even longer I believe, but let’s say that on average, it takes 4 years per building.
Bear in mind too, that most work today, is still performed manually and on site.
That said, now let’s go back in time.
Construction began on the 792 feet, 60-story Woolworth Building in New York City 110 years ago, on November 4, 1910.
It was completed within a mere 20 months, on July 1, 1912.
Ninety years ago, or so we’re told, the construction began of the magnificent, 1,454 feet, 102-storey, Art Deco-style Empire State Building, on March 17, 1930.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.
It was miraculously completed within a mere 13 months, on April 11, 1931.
(This 13 month quick-build hoax, is recorded as historical fact by Wikipedia, Britannica and most other sources).
”Onlookers were enraptured by the sheer height at which the steelworkers operated”
we’re told, and New York Magazine wrote of the steelworkers:
“Like little spiders they toiled, spinning a fabric of steel against the sky”
(Credit: Wikipedia)
Work on the 640-foot tall, 50-story, General Electric Building commenced on May 3, 1930.
It was completed about 18 months later at the end of 1931.
Construction of the 1,046 feet tall, 77-story Art Deco-style Chrysler Building took a little longer.
It was completed over a 20-month period from September 1928 to May 1930.
The 927-foot-tall, Neo-Gothic style, 62-floor Manhattan Company Building (40 Wall Street), tops them all, however.
Construction began in May 1929, and the building was completed by May 1, 1930, and officially opened on May 26.
On May 6, 1930, the New York Times headlined; Bank of Manhattan Built in Record Time; Structure 927 Feet High, Second Tallest in World, is Erected in Year of Work.
What a sensational headline!
It would be interesting to know what folk reading this thought at the time.
Would they have believed the mainstream media without question?
In all probability, yes, they would, just as I would likely have done if I was living at that time.
For we all have a tendency to believe what we read in the newspapers etc.
Until we begin to wake up, of course.
In his 1938 book, ”Changing the Skyline: An Autobiography” (p.283), Paul Starrett, of the Starrett Corporation, said that:
Of all the construction work which I have handled, the Bank of Manhattan was the most complicated and the most difficult, and I regard it as the most successful.
I’m sure you’re right, Mr. Starrett.
Nevertheless, I have just one simple question for you.
How was it possible for you guys to construct a skyscraper 90 years or more ago, in approximately one third of the time it takes today?
Okay, that’s a fair point you make, Mr. Starrett.
I agree, the average working week back in the 1930’s was 50.6 hours, compared with the 37.2 hours in 2019.
But surely, a 13-hour difference in a working week should more than balance out when taking into account, today’s more advanced technology, efficient machinery and power tools etc.
What am I missing here, Mr. Starrett?
Am I just being illogical?
Or are the dates and construction times according to the official narrative flawed, unbelievable and illogical?
Yes, you’re absolutely right Mr. Starrett.
It is indeed an enigma.
Thanks to the countless hours of diligent research and the dedication of folk such as:
- Ryan Zehm
- Jon Levi
- Paul Cook
and Michelle Gibson etc. in compiling such a remarkable collection of videos and mini documentaries for YouTube, many now believe there was an ulterior motive behind all of this.
The renovation, repurposing or removal of the remaining old world structures, and disguise any traces which would indicate an earlier reset in the timeline.
If you think this sounds crazy, then consider this.
Would it be any less crazy, than to believe the Empire State Building was erected at the rate of a fraction under two levels per week?
Week in, week out, for 56 weeks straight?
Is there actually any reliable and consistent evidence for the Empire State Building under construction?
The answer is no, not really.
While photo and video existed then, we’re told that very few photographs survived.
The majority of which, show grainy images of a trio of grinning workmen without hard hats or safety harness, sitting astride steel girders, and posing for the camera in a staged, mid-air photo-shoot.
Until a company called EarthCam claimed to have uncovered the long-lost time-lapse footage from 1931, of the entire construction process.
A 50- second video which they shared on YouTube.
The date it was uploaded?
April 1, 2018.
O why are we so gullible?
Logic and reason scream out, that the official narrative surrounding the Empire State Building, and many other magnificent structures, is a fabricated one.
So, when exactly was the Empire State Building constructed?
I’ve no idea.
My guess is that it was an inherited structure and was discovered partially buried in the dirt.
Is it possible that from the time of its discovery, the entire area had been cordoned off from the public?
Until such time as the building was ready to be displayed in all its glory?
Maybe most of the renovation work was completed in 13 months.
But it certainly wasn’t built from scratch in 13 months back in 1930.
Do you start to see why many have claimed that our grand cathedrals and other magnificent structures were originally built by aliens from a distant planet, or time travelers from the future?
And due to being conditioned by the likes of Hollywood, who can actually blame them?
A fast-growing number, however, have since rejected the alien and time travel nonsense, and thanks to some mind-blowing research and videos on YouTube etc. now believe the builders were of the Tartarian Empire, which they say once ruled much of the world.
With this I disagree, for as previously mentioned, I cannot believe that any race or nation which has descended from one of the three sons of Noah, has had the ability to build such architectural wonders, or not during the time period we’re told, anyway.
Upon saying that, there is a period in European history, generally referred to as ‘The Renaissance’, covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
During this time period, we see a surprisingly rapid, and virtually unexplained increase of a far superior skill and ability, both in architecture and the classical arts in general.
In fact, it would almost appear that the craftsmen and artisans during this remarkable era, were capable of interacting with both the physical realm and the spiritual realm simultaneously.
The basic principles of these buildings were always the same and their quality unrivalled.
Each distinctively crafted as though an architecture within an architecture.
Is this uniform architecture of such excellent quality, an indication of a unified civilization that no longer exists?
Was the term, ‘The Renaissance’ merely invented to brush over a remarkable period of history, which in so many different ways are hard to explain?
Why did this superior craftsmanship come to a halt?
Who were they, and where did these superior craftsmen and artisans go?
We will endeavor to answer this difficult question later.
CONTINUE
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