BUENOS AIRES.
No building in Buenos Aires is permitted to be higher than the width of the street upon which it is erected, hence the skyscraper will never become popular there, despite the splendid growth and wideawakeness of the city. Much as this metropolis is known ? it is not generally thought of in the light of age. However, it is one of the oldest cities in the New World. The first white settlement was made forty-two years after the discovery of America by Columbus, and the first buildings wero mud huts thatched with straw. Then a brick kiln was made and later tiles and bricks were imported from Spain. The first city was of Spanish architecture, and that style prevailed for more than 500 years. Despite the many great changes which have come through the passage of time and the general building advance in tho world, four-fifths of the houses of Buenos Aires are stall of one story, although there are sLreets lined with six-story palaces.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 16
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