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 ...

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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 ...

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Britain is full of incredible historic buildings, but few possess a tale quite as compelling as a striking Medieval townhouse in Gloucester. The Grade I-listed 26 Westgate, also known as the Old ...

Chicago’s Rookery Building stands as one of the most important surviving links to the birth of the modern skyscraper. Commissioned in 1885, it is the oldest existing high-rise in the United States to ...