THE FIRST SKY-SCRAPER.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13497, 17 June 1914, Page 2

THE FIRST SKY-SCRAPER.

There has recently been demolished, to make way for a larger structure, a ten-storey tower building in New York. The building was erected in 1889, and has been in service for a quarter of a century. Naturally the condition of its framework was a matter of interest for architects and engineers. The frame * consisted of cast iron columns and wrought iron floor beams. The floors were of flat-arch, terra cotta construction. The framework was found to be in excellent condition, the wrought iron beams showing a practical absence of rust, and the cast iron columns, with a three-inch cast iron shell around them for fire protection, showing only a few localised patches of rust and heavy rusting only at a few special points.