How the Ruins of an Early NYC Skyscraper Live on in an Indiana Park
(via Thought and Sight) If you chanced on this crumbling, column ringed structure in the middle of an Indianapolis park, you might think you were looking at a former estate, or the remains of a particularly grand park building. The truth is quite a bit more interesting. It starts in 1898, when an early skyscraper–26 stories tall!– was built in New York City.