Which skyscraper in New York is the oldest with an all-steel skeleton? Yes, many old buildings have a cage construction (where the exterior walls are self-supporting).
The first three steel frame skyscrapers in New York have been gone for a very long time, but which one came next.
2nd. the Lancashire Fire Ins. Building 1889
Fun fact: The Rand McNally Building in Chicago was the world’s first all-steel framed skyscraper
My bet is the Tower building.
Twin Towers
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View from the Twin Towers to the southern tip of Manhattan at night 1980.
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Bellevue Stratford Hotel Philadelphia
Too bad it was never built the way it was originally proposed.
Before income taxes -
Normally I would have posted these pictures in my personal topic, but I don’t want the topic to get too messy.
These are very nice pictures of the ruins of the Versailles of the East from the 1870s. Yes, this was the name given to the former imperial palace in Europe.
Haiyantang
The original Asian style buildings were completely destroyed in the fire, only the stone-built western mansions remained in ruins.
Question:
What are those vertical and horizontal lines in the inside of the walls? @TKDV
Could it be that the rooms had been wood-paneled?
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German?
Another fun fact. The northern half of Monadnock Building in Chicago, built in 1889, is the tallest, at 16 floors, building with load bearing masonry walls–no steel. The bottom sections are incredibly thick–6 feet. It still exists and is designated as a landmark. The southern half was added onto a couple of decades later.
We’ve been in the Monadnock. Stache–You are right. The staircases are amazing. See About | Monadnock Building | Historic Office Building in Downtown Chicago.
They had at one time an odd family type department store at the base. Very old school. I interviewed there when I was a twink (50 years ago!) -
Where exactly was this U.S. Mint building in Philadelphia? and what does this area look like today?
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Chestnut and Juniper street.
Courtesy of Daytonian in Manhattan blog - The building that Robert Walpole hates! 
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The Childs Unique Dairy Company was established in 1898 by brothers Samuel S. and William Childs to “establish and operate restaurants in New York City and elsewhere.” Their Childs Restaurants were among the first dining chains in the United States. The firm’s phenomenal success was such that before the end of World War I a sister business, Childs Real Estate Company, was established to erect the buildings in which the restaurants would be housed.
In 1926, the Child’s Real Estate Company hired architect William Van Alen to design a 14-story and penthouse office building at the northeast corner of Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street. Although he was a partner in Severance and Van Alen (which would begin designing the Chrysler Building a year later), he took this project on independently. It was not the first time he had worked with Childs, nor would it be the last. In 1919 he had designed a building for the restauranteurs a few blocks away at 377 Fifth Avenue.
Van Alen’s cautious Art Deco design was nearly devoid of ornamentation. The steel-frame construction allowed for as much glass as masonry in the upper floors. Along with the restaurant at ground floor were several stores. Tenants and their visitors entered under a handsome Art Deco screen on 33rd Street.
image vis the NYC Dept of Records & Information Services.
The site across the street from the [Hotel Pennsylvania would guarantee a steady stream of customers to the Childs Restaurant. And the plans were given an enormous boost when, on May 26, 1926, the city’s Transit Commission approved a proposal between the Childs and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to include “an approach to the Pennsylvania Station of the Seventh Avenue Subway through the premises.”
The building was completed in 1927.
The Childs Real Estate Company sold 421 Seventh Avenue in 1945 to Arnold Gumowitz.
In 1980 an immense billboard that wraps the corner was erected over the third through eighth floors. Along with today’s garish conglomeration of signage and awnings on the ground and second floors, it greatly obscures Van Alen’s design.
image via wikimapia.org.
Wow the Schwab house would have been incredible historical gem for the city to have. It was gifted to the city and a DeBlasio-like mayor tore it down for no reason. What a shame!
Union Trust Building, San Francisco, Market/Post and Montgomery Streets
c.1895 iteration
After the 1904 expansion and the 1906 earthquake
1962
Demolition in 1966. 44 Montgomery Street, the replacement, was built behind it before it was demolished
44 Montgomery Street and the exposed Hobart Building flank
Kind of a shame they tore it down.
