Chicago's Monadnock Building, completed one year before the Western Reserve Building, was also designed by Burnham & Root. Both buildings share load-bearing masonry exterior walls, although both have some interior iron structural supports, marking them as transitional buildings in terms of construction technologies. At 16 stories, the Monadnock Building was the tallest building ever built with load-bearing masonry walls. Its walls are six feet thick on the first floor. | Creator: David K. Staub, CC BY-SA 2.5 | Date: December 30, 2005 | Source: Wikimedia CommonsDownload Original File
