Manhattan Building, 431 South Dearborn St Chicago, Cook County, IL
"There is one basement, and the building is supported on spread foundations with beam and rail grillages. The building is true skeleton construction, with no use of party walls, the north and south walls of tile being supported upon steel cantilevers carrying the load back to the first row of interior columns. The columns are of cast iron, and the beams and girders of wrought iron with `no steel in the buildings, Bessemer beams being still too expensive.` It was the `first building to recognize a system of wind-bracing as a necessity.`"
Manhattan Building, 431 South Dearborn St Chicago, Cook County, IL
"There is one basement, and the building is supported on spread foundations with beam and rail grillages. The building is true skeleton construction, with no use of party walls, the north and south walls of tile being supported upon steel cantilevers carrying the load back to the first row of interior columns. The columns are of cast iron, and the beams and girders of wrought iron with `no steel in the buildings, Bessemer beams being still too expensive.` It was the `first building to recognize a system of wind-bracing as a necessity.`"
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
