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 ...

Main Street, downtown Lexington, circa summer 1938. Rails run down the street, but around this time streetcar service was discontinued in Lexington. Like most American cities, as roads were improved ...

Dozens of workers are turning the 22-story Grant-Deneau Tower into a 21st-century living space. “Everything you see, we build ourselves, we don’t purchase a lot, we do it all in-house,” Jason Dorsey, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Trust Building, originally the Atlantic Trust and Banking building, was built in Wilmington from 1910-1912. Designed by Joseph F. Leitner, the nine-story building was Wilmington's first skyscraper ...