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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- Home Insurance Building, Chicagoconcerns
- The steel skeleton frameconcerns
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