San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 496
el skele-tons. Before their advent, there was hardlyany radical improvement in building con-struction from the days of the pyramidsthe Colosseum or St. Peters. It was a mat-ter of piling stone upon stone with heightdefinitely limited by the ever-increasingthickness of the first story walls.… … ^^^^-rSS EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. NEW YORK102 Stories High Monadnock in Chicago. This building andothers of about the same size, such as theRookery Building and the Masonic TempleBuilding in the same city have floors andinterior walls supported by a metal frame-work; but the outer walls are solid,…
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