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 ...

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The tallest building in Wilmington is the former PPD building, which stands at 193 feet along North Front Street. The hard-to-miss structure overtook the top spot from the ...

A version of this story originally published Feb. 1, 2015. It is part of a collection of history columnist Jeff Suess' favorite columns. In 1929, the First Presbyterian Church, the oldest congregation ...

Grand Central Terminal is not the only New York landmark celebrating its one-hundredth birthday this year. The Woolworth Building, Manhattan’s gothic-style “Cathedral of Commerce,” was also built in ...

The exhibition, which will remain on display at least through October, sheds light on this often-overlooked aspect of the history of tall buildings with models, diagrams, photos, drawings, and videos.

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