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2. Early skyscrapers - Wikipedia

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   The 1890 Rand McNally Building became the first entirely self-supporting, steel-framed skyscraper. [54] Some buildings, such as The Rookery and the Monadnock Building, combined elements of both the newer and older styles, but generally Chicago rapidly adopted steel structures as a flexible and effective way to produce a range of tall buildings ...

3. Steel frame - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, the first steel framed building was the Rand McNally Building in Chicago, erected in 1890. The Royal Insurance Building in Liverpool designed by James Francis Doyle in 1895 (erected 1896–1903) was the first to use a steel frame in the United Kingdom. [6]

4. List of firsts in architecture - Wikipedia

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   Oriel Chambers, the first building to feature a metal-framed glass curtain wall. Built in 1864. Equitable Life Building (Manhattan), first office building to use passenger elevators. Completed in 1870. Home Insurance Building, widely considered to be the first true skyscraper due to its use of a structural steel frame. Built in 1884.

5. Skyscraper - Wikipedia

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   Burnham and Root's 45 m (148 ft) Rand McNally Building in Chicago, 1889, was the first all-steel framed skyscraper, [32] while Louis Sullivan's 41 m (135 ft) Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, 1891, was the first steel-framed building with soaring vertical bands to emphasize the height of the building and is therefore considered to be ...

6. Rand McNally Building - Wikipedia

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   The Rand McNally Building was an early skyscraper at 160–174 Adams Street in Chicago, Illinois, built in 1889 and demolished in 1911. Designed by Burnham and Root , it was the world's first all- steel framed skyscraper .

7. William Le Baron Jenney - Wikipedia

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   Another source cites the inspiration for the steel skyscraper as coming from vernacular, Philippine architecture, where wooden framed construction gave Jenney the idea. [6] The Home Insurance Building was the first example of a steel skeleton building, the first grid of iron columns, girders, beams, and floor joists ever constructed. [7]