List Of Early Skyscrapers
This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1880 and the 1930s, predominantly in the United States cities of New York and Chicago, but also across the rest of the U.S. and in many other parts of the world. The first skyscrapers (1880–1899) United States California * Central Tower * Old Chronicle Building Georgia * Equitable Building * Flatiron Building * J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building Illinois * Fisher Building * Home Insurance Building * Manhattan Building * Marquette Building * Marshall Field and Company Building * Masonic Temple * Monadnock Building * New York Life Insurance Building * Old Colony Building * Rand McNally Building * Reliance Building * Rookery Building * Tacoma Building Iowa * Observatory Building Massachusetts * 27 State St. * 62 Boylston Street * Ames Building * Fiske Building * Winthrop Building Michigan * United Way Community Services Building * Hammond Building ...
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Early Skyscrapers
The earliest stage of skyscraper design encompasses buildings built between 1884 and 1945, predominantly in the American cities of New York and Chicago. Cities in the United States were traditionally made up of low-rise buildings, but significant economic growth after the Civil War and increasingly intensive use of urban land encouraged the development of taller buildings beginning in the 1870s. Technological improvements enabled the construction of fireproofed iron-framed structures with deep foundations, equipped with new inventions such as the elevator and electric lighting. These made it both technically and commercially viable to build a new class of taller buildings, the first of which, Chicago's tall Home Insurance Building, opened in 1885. Their numbers grew rapidly, and by 1888 they were being labelled ''skyscrapers''. Chicago initially led the way in skyscraper design, with many constructed in the center of the financial district during the late 1880s and early 1890s. ...
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