Home Insurance Building

The home insurance building with twelve floors

The Home Insurance Building was a Chicago skyscraper from 1885, which is the first modern skyscraper in the world due to its then unique height of 42 meters and ten floors. The building was designed by the civil engineer William Le Baron Jenney . In 1890 it was extended by two more floors to a total of twelve floors and thus 55 meters. The Home Insurance Building and some surrounding buildings were demolished in 1931 and replaced by the LaSalle National Bank Building (completed in 1934, 45 floors, 163 meters).

See also

• List of the tallest buildings of their time

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. z. B. Bill Bryson : Made in America: an Informal History of the English Language in the United States , Black Swan, 1998, p. 119
2. ↑ emporis.com: Home Insurance Building, Chicago , accessed on Aug. 24, 2008

Coordinates: 41 ° 52 ′ 46.6 "  N , 87 ° 37 ′ 55.2"  W.