350 Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th Streets. This color postcard is an idealized drawing of the Empire State Building. At the base of the building are houses and tenements. Next to the building is a list of structures with the dates of when these buildings stood on the site before the Empire State Building was built in 1931. Designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet high and was once the tallest building in the world.