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 ...

The Field Building is often considered the world’s first skyscraper. It introduced steel-frame construction that reshaped ...

This story has been updated to correct that the Palace Theater did not have 8,500 seats. That was the planned number, but the final total was just under 2,700. The downtown Columbus skyline would be ...

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 ...