First Leiter Building
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title:
First Leiter Building
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The First Leiter building was a Chicago commercial structure built in 1879 by William Le Baron Jenney. It was renovated and extended in 1888, and demolished in 1972. Jenney designed this building, located at Washington and Wells Streets, as a department store for Levi Z. Leiter. This building marked a significant milestone in architectural engineering: it combined, for the first time, four essential elements of a modern skyscraper in one building. These were: its great height; an iron skeletal f
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Former historic building in Chicago, IL, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Leiter_Building
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2024-02-27T06:45:03Z
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