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Demolition supplies the evidence for the claim

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The Home Insurance Building is demolished and its structure examined during the process. Much of what is known about how the frame actually worked - which members were cast iron, which wrought iron, where Bessemer steel was used, how much the masonry still carried - comes from that examination rather than from the original drawings. The building had to be taken apart before its historical claim could be assessed.

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  1. Story
  2. The Home Insurance Building is demolished and its structure examined during the process. Much of what is known about how the frame actually worked - which members were cast iron, which wrought iron, where Bessemer steel was used, how much the masonry still carried - comes from that examination rather than from the original drawings. The building had to be taken apart before its historical claim could be assessed.
  3. Knowledge
  4. The steel skeleton frame
  5. Home Insurance Building, Chicago
  6. Demolition supplies the evidence for the claim
  7. Connections
  8. Home Insurance Building, Chicago
  9. The steel skeleton frame
  10. William Le Baron Jenney
  11. The safety elevator
  12. Chicago
  13. The steel skeleton frame
  14. The Home Insurance Building is completed in Chicago
  15. Demolition supplies the evidence for the claim
  16. Load path
  17. Structural steel
  18. The curtain wall
  19. Home Insurance Building, Chicago
  20. The Home Insurance Building is completed in Chicago
  21. Demolition supplies the evidence for the claim
  22. Evidence
  23. Standard structural history of Chicago commercial building, including the composition of the Home Insurance Building frame as established when the building was demolished in 1931, and the qualifications attached to the "first skyscraper" claim. V55 verification basis: real and standard, not consulted in this session.
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