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    The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper that stood in Chicago from 1885 to its demolition in 1931. Originally ten stories and 138 ft (42.1 m) tall...
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  • Home insurance, also commonly called homeowner's insurance (often abbreviated in the US real estate industry as HOI), is a type of property insurance...
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  • was built, but not the tallest building. The skyscraper was invented in Chicago in 1884 when Home Insurance Building was constructed using a steel frame...
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    known for designing the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago. The building was the first fully metal-framed building and is considered the first skyscraper...
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    The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower (colloquially known as the Met Life Tower and also as the South Building) is a skyscraper occupying a full...
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    Detroit, and St. Louis. The first steel-frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building, originally 10 stories with a height of 42 m or 138 ft, in Chicago...
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    (secondary coordinates) The first building considered to be a skyscraper was the 138 ft (42.1 m) Home Insurance Building, built in Chicago in 1885. The United...
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    Chicago had 125 buildings at least 500 feet (152 m) tall. Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper. The Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885...
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    world's first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building, built in Chicago in 1885. Since then, the United States has been home to some of the world's tallest...
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    Architecture of Chicago (category Buildings and structures in Chicago)
    were among the first modern skyscrapers. William LeBaron Jenney's Home Insurance Building was completed in 1885 and is considered to be the first to use...
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    Early skyscrapers (category Commercial buildings in the United States)
    to build a new class of taller buildings, the first of which, Chicago's 138-foot (42 m) tall Home Insurance Building, opened in 1885. Their numbers grew...
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    The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company: Its History, Its Present Position in the Insurance World, Its Home Office Building and Its Work Carried on...
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    building. The 10-story Home Insurance Building, built in Chicago in 1885, is regarded as the world's first skyscraper; the building was constructed using...
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  • style, is completed. The Home Insurance Building in Chicago designed by William LeBaron Jenney (demolished 1931). The Kuhns Building in Dayton, Ohio, is constructed...
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    the largest building boom in the history of the nation. In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the...
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    was first used by architect William LeBaron Jenney in the 1884 Home Insurance Building, and immediately after by several of the Chicago School architecture...
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    of tallest buildings in New York City "Emporis building ID 115514". Emporis. Archived from the original on February 5, 2020. "Home Insurance Plaza". SkyscraperPage...
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    fire insurance, flood insurance, earthquake insurance, home insurance, inland marine insurance or boiler insurance. The term property insurance may, like...
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  • designed by Francis Fowler and James Ebenezer Saunders. Autumn – The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, Illinois, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. With...
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    opened corporate offices as the National Biscuit Company in the Home Insurance Building in the Chicago Loop in 1898, the world's first skyscraper. Pearson...
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    Jenney's solution for his Home Insurance Building. After investigating the lost Chicago landmark, the National Association of Building Owners and Managers diagnosed...
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    Chicago Wells Fargo: Insurance Services United Airlines: previously maintained a ticketing office in this building. List of tallest buildings in Chicago "Smurfit–Stone...
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    America Building". 2010. Archived from the original on 2009-04-25. Retrieved 2009-08-02. Kampert, Bert (10 December 2008). "The Home Insurance Building". Chicago...
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    together led to the first steel-framed skyscraper, the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago, built in 1884 by William Le Baron Jenney and based...
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    specialized forms of insurance such as fire insurance, flood insurance, earthquake insurance, home insurance, or boiler insurance. Property is insured...
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    (33 m) deep, the building had just 21.5 ft (6.6 m) of frontage on Broadway, necessitating its novel design. Chicago's Home Insurance Building (completed 1884)...
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    1892 and 1894 as separate buildings. The original 16-story Home Life Insurance Company Building at 256 Broadway was designed by Napoleon LeBrun & Sons in...
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  • solved the problem with a steel support frame in Chicago's 10-story Home Insurance Building, 1885. Arguably this is the first true skyscraper. The use of a...
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    The New York Life Building is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company at 51 Madison Avenue in the Rose Hill and NoMad neighborhoods of...
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  • patents the first known electric food mixer. Completion of the Home Insurance Building in Chicago, designed by William Le Baron Jenney. With ten floors...
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