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the first home life insurance building was opened in Chicago, in 1884 under president Chester Alan Arthur.
The first American Skyscraper was invented in Chicago by William Le Baron Jenney, The Home Insurance Building in 1885. The Home Insurance was 10 feet, built using a skeletal frame, and required a safe elevator. The building was demolished in 1931 to make way for the LaSalla Bank Building. Some say it was the Equitable Life Insurance Building in New York in 1870 by architects, Arthur Gilman and Edward H. Kendall. The Equitable was 7 feet, and used a safe elevator, but it is not confirmed that it used a skeletal frame. The building was destroyed in a fire in 1912.
Skyscraper.
The first skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.
The first skyscraper was The Home Insurance building built in 1885 in Chicago.
The first skycrapper built was in Chicago, IL and it's called the Home Insurance Building.
The "Home Insurance Building" in Chicago was a ten-story edifice constructed in 1885, and is considered to have been the first skyscraper.
An elevator system must be installed when the building is built. There is no way to install an elevator into a structure.
The world's first skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago. It was erected in 1884-1885.
The first Skyscraper was 138 feet tall and 10 stories. It was the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.
The known "father of the skycraper" is the the Home Insurance Building constructed in Chicago back in the year 1885.