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 Field Building is often considered the world’s first skyscraper. It introduced steel-frame construction that reshaped ...

Main Street, downtown Lexington, circa summer 1938. Rails run down the street, but around this time streetcar service was discontinued in Lexington. Like most American cities, as roads were improved ...

This story has been updated to correct that the Palace Theater did not have 8,500 seats. That was the planned number, but the final total was just under 2,700. The downtown Columbus skyline would be ...

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 ...

Not quite 100 years old, the Zuelke Building opened in late 1931 by Irving Zuelke on the corner of East College Avenue and South Oneida Street, and was labeled the city's first "skyscraper." Zuelke ...

The future of Wilson Plaza, where the city’s first skyscraper opened in the Uptown business district on March 27, 1927, is unclear since it closed on Oct. 25. The 12-story Wilson Building, eight-story ...