What people don't realize is that sheetrock and tile over a wood framed wall is NOT considered any more fireproof than beadboard. You can still burn things through a pan or a clay crock, and the flammable material behind tile can still get extremely dry and ignite.
Over the next four months, workers reassembled the statue and mounted it on the pedestal; its height reached 305 feet (or 93 meters), including the pedestal. On October 28, 1886, President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty in front of thousands of spectators.
The Statue of Liberty's copper skin is an amazingly thin 3/32th inches (2.4mm) and so highly malleable. Draped over a framework, with moulded sections of the statue placed on the outside, the copper could be hammered into the moulded shapes. The Statue of Liberty was sculpted from the inside-out.