• Retrieved January 19, 2012. The word skyscraper, in its architectural context, was first applied to the Home Insurance Building, completed in Chicago in 1885.
  • In conclusion, the Home Insurance Building is not just a footnote in history but a cornerstone of modern urban development.
  • Exterior of the Home Insurance Building, widely considered to be the world's first modern skyscraper, Chicago, 1926.
  • The third of the large buildings granted a building permit during the first week March 1884 was the Home Insurance Building.
  • Chicago’s Home Insurance Building, the 12-story office building designed by William Le Baron Jenney, completed in 1885 and demolished in 1931, has frequently...
  • As a result, they began changing the historical account and offering misleading statements about the structure of the Home Insurance Building.
  • The Home Insurance Building by architect William Le Baron Jenney was built in northeast corner of La Salle and Adams Streets in 1885.
  • The Home Insurance Building survived the tests and soon became a model for subsequent skyscrapers that began to mushroom in Chicago.
  • The Building Committee of the Home Insurance Company of New York have been examining the designs of three different architects.