Home Insurance Building

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(place) by wivern (6.5 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Dec 22 2000 at 2:19:18

The first skyscraper, erected in Chicago in 1885. The building is small in comparison to today's skyscrapers; it consists of only eleven stories and one basement (nine stories in the original construction and two stories added at a later date). The Home Insurance Building was the groundbreaking structure to truly introduce a load-carrying infrastructure, developed by architect Major William Le Baron Jenney, setting the foundation (no pun intended) for future architects and skyscrapers.

skyscraper	Lloyds TSB	Buying a house	renter's insurance
Chicago, Illinois	Meno's Paradox	architecture

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