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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...