Home Insurance Company Building Chicago

In 1883 william lebaron jenney was appointed by the home insurance company in new york to design a tall fireproof building for their chicago headquarters.

Home insurance company building chicago. This building is torn down. Jenney will be strictly fire proof and first class in every respect. Originally ten stories and 138 ft 42 1 m tall it was designed by william le baron jenney in 1884 and completed the next year. Home insurance building is a 12 story high rise building in chicago illinois u s a.

His revolutionary design utilized an. Chicago tribune march 2 1884. Two floors were added in 1891 bringing it to 138 feet 42 1 metres. Demolished 1931 generally considered to be the world s first tall building supported by an internal frame or skeleton of iron and steel rather than by load bearing walls and the first to incorporate steel as a structural material.

Construction of the home insurance company building is completed. Jenney took out a permit yesterday to put up an eight story and basement office structure at the northeast corner of adams and la salle streets to cost 300 000 for the home insurance company of new york. Leroy buffington is awarded a patent for the skyscraper even though the home insurance building and other skyscrapers have already been built. The building said mr.

View a detailed profile of the structure 102645 including further data and descriptions in the emporis database. The home insurance building was a skyscraper that stood in chicago from 1885 to 1931.