What was the tallest building is 1884?

essaychess

The Eiffel Tower. Feb 23 03, 1:39 AM

mochyn

home insurance building in chicago http://www.eng.ucalgary.ca/CSCE-Students/structural_design.htm The Eiffel Tower is not a building and building was not started until 1887 Feb 23 03, 6:44 AM

Andy	Actually, the Eiffel Tower was completed by 1884 and was the tallest structure in the world at that time at 984 feet. I have to agree {though;} the Eiffel Tower is not a building. Feb 23 03, 3:46 PM

mochyn

according to the official website ,work started in 1887 check it out http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/teiffel/uk/documentation/dossiers/page/construction.html Feb 23 03, 4:57 PM

Jeeves

I will leave others to fight over the definition of a building. The following is a quote from http://pub125.ezboard.com/fworldarchitecturecommunityfrm12.showMessage?topicID=10.topic I've seen some differing sources on the world's-tallest title in the 1880s and 1890s.In the course of the 1880s,the world's tallest STRUCTURE title passed between Cologne Cathedral (513 feet,completed 1880),the Washington Monument(555 feet,1884), and the Eiffel Tower(985 feet,1889).In the 1880s and 1890s the first really tall BUILDINGS in the sense of floors all the way up were constructed,the Home Insurance and Masonic Temple buildings each holding the crown in Chicago I believe while others in New York vied for the crown. Feb 23 03, 6:25 PM

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