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 ...

Not quite 100 years old, the Zuelke Building opened in late 1931 by Irving Zuelke on the corner of East College Avenue and South Oneida Street, and was labeled the city's first "skyscraper." Zuelke ...

People for decades could only peer into downtown Atlanta’s Gulch and wonder if anything but pigeons could ever rise from its depths. But on Thursday, a crowd of Atlanta leaders didn’t look down. They ...

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 ...