NY is known as the city of skyscrappers but in which city was the first skyscrapper of d world built in 1885?

Question

NY is known as the city of skyscrappers but in which city was the first skyscrapper of d world built in 1885?

Answer 1

The Home Insurance Building was built in 1885 in Chicago, Illinois

Answer 2

The Home Insurance Building was built in 1885 in Chicago, Illinois and demolished in 1931 to make way for the Field Building (now the LaSalle Bank Building). It was the first building to use structural steel in its frame, but the majority of its structure was composed of cast and wrought iron. . It was the first tall building to be supported, both inside and outside, by a fireproof metal frame.[1] Due to the building's unique architecture and unique weight bearing frame, it is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It had 10 stories and rose to a height of 138 feet (42 m) high[2]. In 1890, two additional floors were built on top of the original 10-story building. A forensic analysis done during its demolition purported to show that the building was the first to carry both floors and external walls entirely on its metal frame, but details and later scholarship have largely disproved this, and it has been shown that the structure must have relied upon both metal and masonry elements to support its weight, and to hold it up against wind. Although the Home Insurance Building made full use of steel framing technology, it was not a pure steel-framed structure since it rested partly on granite piers at the base and on a rear brick wall.

Answer 3

i think its new york itself thongh i dont remember the building.....think its empire state building

Answer 4

Chicago's Home Insurance Building.  A towering 10 stories! No longer standing.

Answer 5

I could quite easily refute this claim now by what is defined as a skyscraper.....check this......

"A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition or a precise cutoff height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper. However, as per usual practice in most cities, the definition is used empirically, depending on the relative impact of the shape of a building to a city's overall skyline. Thus, depending on the average height of the rest of the buildings and/ or structures in a city, even a building of 80 meters height (approximately 262 ft) may be considered a skyscraper provided that it clearly stands out above its surrounding built environment and significantly changes the overall skyline of that particular city."

If this is what defines a skyscraper then the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet, could easily be classified as a skyscraper. More to the point, it predates the Home Insurance Building by some 220 years. The Potala Palace has 13 storeys, 3 more than the Home Insurance Building and it is 170 metres high....128 metres taller that the Home Insurance Building!!

Methinks the Americans want credit they don't really deserve.