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The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)

San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 420

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taller the buildings the more they are likely to lean,although the amount they are out of plumb is seldom enough to endanger thestructure. Recently the Building Commissioners of Chicago ordered theUnity Building straightened as it was unsafe but not dangerous, being thirtyinches out of plumb. In an… … NEW DAIEXPORT HOTEL, SPOKANE, WASHINGTONThe First Two Stories of Boise Sandstone. say that every building in the city leans .more or less. If they are on floatingfoundations they also settle gradually. But there is still another movement ofbuildings, and the most interesting of them all to…

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