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The first skyscraper in America and why it shocked the public

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 ...
WDAF-TV

A Chicago building has long been called the world’s ‘first skyscraper,’ but was it?

(NEXSTAR) – Can you imagine a time before skyscrapers towered over the world’s great cities, shading the streets and sidewalks below? That was the reality until America entered a new architectural era ...
The New York Times

Is This 19th-Century Factory the World’s First Skyscraper?

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 ...