The Scarbrough Building at Sixth Street and Congress Avenue is downtown's first skyscraper, completed back in 1910 when its eight floors were more than enough to earn that title. Despite being built in a era of astonishingly low car ownership per capita compared to current rates, the tower doesn't do much for the pedestrian at street level besides look pretty.
Back then, everyone was probably too busy trying not to catch tuberculosis to waste any time thinking about newfangled concepts like . . .
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