(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper - 1884-1885 African San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Area

San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Area (Comprising the Nine Counties Bordering on the Bay)

With bold original hand color we see the primitive configuration from "Main" as it reached from the Atlantic to the St

and implies a big future that it would unfold

Great Leader - 15th of April 1912"

Notes the roads and rail lines

(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper - 1884-1885 African San Francisco Bay Metropolitan Area(Architecture) First Steel Skeleton Skyscraper 1884 1885, Thom, 1968 In the wake of the Chicago fires that swept through the city, architect William Labaron Jenney designed the next great step in building upward. Brick buildings could only reach up to five or six floors due to their own massive weight, but with declining prices of iron and steel, Jenney had a plan. In 1884 he laid out the structure of the Home Life Insurance building in Chicago which