. The city of New York. d the cost afterward. At the same timea visit to either one of them as part of yourtrip to New York can be made withoutbankruptcy as a necessary consequence andthey are well worth seeing. Something about Skyscrapers New York is the birthplace of the sky-scraper. Only this year (1914) was theredestroyed the Tower, the first building at50 Broadway which successfully demon-strated the value of this new idea inarchitecture. A tablet to the honor ofthe designer adorned this building. A laterand more impressive building will arise onthe site of the first ten story baby sky-sc
. The city of New York. d the cost afterward. At the same timea visit to either one of them as part of yourtrip to New York can be made withoutbankruptcy as a necessary consequence andthey are well worth seeing. Something about Skyscrapers New York is the birthplace of the sky-scraper. Only this year (1914) was theredestroyed the Tower, the first building at50 Broadway which successfully demon-strated the value of this new idea inarchitecture. A tablet to the honor ofthe designer adorned this building. A laterand more impressive building will arise onthe site of the first ten story baby sky-scraper which marked the beginning of thenew school in building. While the sameidea has been carried out in many othercities, the skyscraper in New York, its nativeland, is still the last word in this direction. These buildings grew out of the concen-tration of business and the ever-insistentdemand for business office room in the close-ly congested business centers. The sky-scraper provides business opportunity for » 187. Leonard Jeiomes house first home of the UnionLeague Chib, i860. Madison Ave. & 26tli^bt. a thousand, two thousand, ten thousand,where without it there would be room onlyforas many hundreds. _ It added immenselyto the value of the limited real estate on theisland. Two factors have made it possible—the passenger elevator, which gives im-mediate access to the upper stories, andthe steel cage system of construction, whichenables the architect to design his buildingto any desired height. The steel cage is aframework of steel beams, bolted togetherwith hot rivets. In effect it is a bridgeset on end. The walls are simply weathershields, fastened to it. Under the oldsystem the walls supported the floors; inthe new buildings, the walls serve merelyas curtains to shut out the weather, andare themselves supported by girders whichproject at the levels of the floors. Thesteel frame goes up first, and the walls areput on afterwards; sometimes the upperstories are walled in
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