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The steel frame sky scraper is a natural out growth resulting from conditions imposed upon the owners of property lying within the business sections of our large cities.
The advantages to the larger cities, as to time and convenience in business transactions, to have all possible office buildings and commercial interests concentrated within certain limited areas, has also proved an important factor in the intro duction of high buildings. In New York and Chicago, where the steel sky scrapers had their birth, these limitations were caused by the topographical features of the down-town sections, and the only means of increasing the limited business areas were by the introduction of higher buildings.
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