[DOC] [TLE] Early skyscrapers - Wikipedia [PAR] The early skyscrapers were a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 
1884 and 1939, predominantly in the American cities of New York City and 
Chicago. Cities in the United States were traditionally made up of low-rise 
buildings, ... New York was one of the centers of early skyscraper construction, 
and had a... [DOC] [TLE] Home Insurance Building - Wikipedia [PAR] The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper in Chicago, generally noted as 
the first tall building to be supported, both inside and outside, by a fireproof metal 
frame. The building opened in 1884, and was demolished 47 years later in 1931. 
... from 1884 to 1889. Preceded by, Equitable Life Building (New York City). [DOC] [TLE] The world's first skyscraper: a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 9 ... [PAR] Apr 2, 2015 ... The Home Insurance Building was built with a steel frame in 1885 after the Great 
Chicago Fire destroyed parts of the mostly wooden city in 1871. ... It won't 
surprise anybody to learn that the very first skyscraper went up in the United 
States, but it ... For obvious reasons, when the New York Home Insurance... [DOC] [TLE] Home Insurance Building - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com [PAR] Instead of wood, the new buildings going up in Chicago were made largely of 
stone, ... By the time New York got its first steel-frame skyscraper in 1889--the 
Tacoma Building ... Steel was not only lighter than brick, but it could carry more 
weight. ... During its construction, city authorities were so worried that the building 
would... [DOC] [TLE] The Skyscraper - Digital History [PAR] In 1889, the tallest building in the United States was New York's Trinity Church, ... 
Brick could not bear the weight of buildings higher than five or six stories. But 
beginning in Chicago in 1884, steel frame construction allowed architects to ... 
William LeBaron Jenney, a Chicago architect, designed the first skyscraper in 
1884. [DOC] [TLE] The Home Insurance Building: Adams and LaSalle, Chicago, Illinois ... [PAR] New Yorkers may have a hard time admitting it, but Chicago is the birthplace of ... 
The city, formerly made largely from wood, was being re-built in stone, iron, ... 
Before the Home Insurance Building went up there were other attempts to use 
metal ... years before New York got its first skyscraper, the Tacoma Building on 
lower... [DOC] [TLE] skyscraper | building | Britannica.com [PAR] Sep 28, 2016 ... The increase in urban commerce in the United States in the second half of the 
19th century ... James Bogardus built the Cast Iron Building (1848, New York City
) with a rigid ... Building (188485) in Chicago was the first to use steel-girder 
construction. .... skyscraper - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). [DOC] [TLE] Skyscraper Architecture: History, Design of Supertall Buildings [PAR] Zoning Codes: Revision of the N.Y. Building Code (1916) ... of progressive 
American Architecture called "The Skyscraper Up-to-Date," in .... of the New York 
skyscraper," then it was the first of its type, because no other city can claim an 
earlier one. ... Apparently, the architects involved did not realize that these tall 
buildings... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - Culture - The city that changed architecture forever [PAR] Oct 5, 2015 ... It was in Chicago that the world's first skyscraper rose up  and the city's energy 
... Even Chicagoans are not exactly sure why their impressive ... Charged with 
bringing their city back to life and pre-eminence, and to outdo New York, ... At the 
time the majority of US architects and the expert press scoffed at... [DOC] [TLE] How elevators transformed NYC's social landscape | New York Post [PAR] Feb 8, 2014 ... The elevator did more than make New York the city of skyscrapers, it changed ... 
Even in 1884, when the Dakota opened on the Upper West Side (the first ... of 
Life in Apartment-Houses from American Architect and Building News. ...

Question: In 1884 the 1st steel "skyscraper" in the U.S. went up in this city, not New York
Answer: Chicago