Unlike later skyscrapers, the Western Reserve Building's exterior walls are of thick, load-bearing masonry. The 1890s were the last decade in which this older manner of constructing office buildings persisted. Even this building incorporated the use of iron columns on its interior structure, a mark of the growing embrace of steel-frame construction that transformed skyscraper design. | Creator: Bill Nehez | Date: November 15, 1973 | Source: Cleveland Memory, Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections at Cleveland State UniversityDownload Original File
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Bill Nehez
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Cleveland Memory, Michael Schwartz Library Special Collections at Cleveland State University
