In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...
The downtown Columbus skyline would be forever changed when ground was broken on Sept. 23, 1924, to build what is now called LeVeque Tower. American Insurance Union (AIU) President John J. Lentz ...
As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron- and steel-framed towers. Now, its custodians want people to know that. In ...
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