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

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 ...

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 ...