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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 ...

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

Can you imagine a time before skyscrapers towered over the world’s great cities, shading the streets and sidewalks below?
Columbus Dispatch

Ground broken 101 years ago for Columbus' first skyscraper, which became LeVeque Tower

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 ...
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 ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A Closer Look: The Dun Building, Buffalo's first skyscraper

The iconic Dun Building at 110 Pearl St. was designed by E.B. Green and W.S. Wicks and built in 1893. Because the building is so narrow, the masonry walls had to be made load-bearing to withstand the ...
The Post-Crescent

Appleton's Zuelke Building was seen as the city's first 'skyscraper'

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 ...
Yahoo

Ground broken 101 years ago for Columbus' first skyscraper, which became LeVeque Tower

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 ...