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Why It Is OpenSourced to the subject's own accountThe Home Insurance Building in Chicago (1885) is commonly named the first skyscraper for combining a full steel frame with height, but the claim is complicated: the Ditherington Flax Mill in England (1797) and Broad Street Station in Philadelphia (1881) used iron or steel framing earlier at a smaller scale, Chicago's own press did not call the building the first skyscraper at the time, and the title was not formalized until the building's 1985 centennial. 1 What Would Resolve ThisSourced to the subject's own accountA definition of skyscraper that historians apply consistently, by height, frame material and load bearing method, to every iron or steel framed candidate building before 1885, or a contemporaneous record naming one of them first under that definition. 1 Question KindSourced to the subject's own account Question StatusSourced to the subject's own account Reader FacingSourced to the subject's own account Open Question
The Home Insurance Building in Chicago (1885) is commonly named the first skyscraper for combining a full steel frame with height, but the claim is complicated: the Ditherington Flax Mill in England (1797) and Broad Street Station in Philadelphia (1881) used iron or steel framing earlier at a smaller scale, Chicago's own press did not call the building the first skyscraper at the time, and the title was not formalized until the building's 1985 centennial.
What would resolve this A definition of skyscraper that historians apply consistently, by height, frame material and load bearing method, to every iron or steel framed candidate building before 1885, or a contemporaneous record naming one of them first under that definition.
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The Home Insurance Building in Chicago is often considered the world's first skyscraper due to both its design and height; the building was supported using an iron frame skeleton.
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