What happened in the 1880s?
🏛️ Construction of the Home Insurance Building in Chicago (1885): The world's first skyscraper and its architectural significance.
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Further Reading
Home Insurance Building - Chicago Architecture Center (architecture.org)
Home Insurance Building - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
Home Insurance Building (history.com)
Home Insurance Building | Architectuul (architectuul.com)
Early Skyscraper: The Home Insurance Building - RePicture (repicture.com)
Chicago Skyscraper History: Home Insurance Building - Optima, Inc. (optima.inc)
Building Up to the Sky: The Story of Chicago's Home Insurance ... (medium.com)
World's First Skyscraper, world record in Chicago, Illinois (worldrecordacademy.org)
Classic Commonwealth: Virginia Architecture from the Colonial Era ... (virginia.gov)
chicago - Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (classicist.org)