Friday, Aug 14, 2020, 4:31 pm

By:Tony Williams

#7 First Sky Scraper

This is seen as being the 10 story high Chicago Home Insurance Building and that was completed in 1884. Of course now we probably do not even see 10 stories as being a sky scraper, but back then it was a major advance in building techniques and it certainly paved the way for the huge buildings that we see now.