It revolutionised the world of architecture and ushered in an era of ever taller buildings: Chicago's Home Insurance Building is considered to have been the world's first skyscraper. This is its story ...

The Field Building is often considered the world’s first skyscraper. It introduced steel-frame construction that reshaped ...

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 ...

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 ...

Developer Don Mammano bought the 10-story Peoples Security Bank & Trust building at 150 N. Washington Ave. in downtown Scranton, a landmark that was the city’s first skyscraper in the late 1890s.