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039-DYK: Worlds First Skyscraper?

by steve | Oct 12, 2020 | Did You Know? (DYK)

Did you know that the Home Insurance Building in Chicago is generally considered the world’s first skyscraper? Completed in 1885, it was the first to use a curtain wall construction on a steel frame!

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