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Title: Real estate record and builders' guide (electronic resource)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Real property Construction industry
Publisher: New York, F. W. Dodge Corp
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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ness, and that the inception of sixteen-story build-ings was caused only by the rapacity of landlords. Chicago is peculiarlysituated, however. While it covers more ground than any city in thecountry, its business district is limited to the space mentioned by geograph-ical boundaries. To the east is the lake, to the north and west the ChicagoRiver, and the portion between the lake and the river, south of Polk street,is occupied by a net-work of railroad tracks. The only streets which mightbe utilized for stores south of Harrison street ore Wabash and Michiganavenues, and the drift of trade toward those streets as far south as 22dstreet has become quite noticeable of late. But to return to sky-scrapers. Their origin dates from the constructionof the Board of Trade in 1883. Its erection attracted to it a large numberof buildings to be occupied by commission merchants and others whosebusiness necessitated quarters near the bourse and these buildings rose to 26 Record and Guide. SUPPLEMENT
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Thf Audiiiii-tuin Hotel. Adler & BuUivan, Aichitects. the heigbt of nine to twelve stories. The Home Insurance Building, at thenortheast corner of Adams and La Salle streets, was the first in whichsteel construction was used exclusively and the success of the experimentwas so great that since that time it has been adopted exclusively in theerection of buildings more than six stories high. The only exception is thesixteen-story Monadnock Building, erected a year ago by the Brooks estate. After the Home Insurance Building was completed, steel constructedbuildings were erected in rapid order. The Rookery, eleven stories high,the twelve-story Monon block, the Caxton Building, the sixteen-storyManhattan, were all erected about the same time. The Manhattan wasthe first sixteen-story gtructure It was the pioneer of a class of buildingsthat promises to become general. The following sixteen-story buildings

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