It revolutionised the world of architecture and ushered in an era of ever taller buildings: Chicago's Home Insurance Building is considered to have been the world's first skyscraper. This is its ...

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 ...

For the first time since the 19-story EMC Insurance building rose in the 1990s, a ceremonial groundbreaking was held Wednesday for a downtown Des Moines skyscraper. Construction of the ...

Developer Don Mammano bought the 10-story Peoples Security Bank & Trust building at 150 N. Washington Ave. in downtown Scranton, a landmark that was the city’s first skyscraper in the late 1890s.