Talk:Second Leiter Building

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Spiro Kostof claims that the building was the first ever to use steel, and thus not iron, for it's skeletal structure. Who's right?

(Kostof, S. (1995). A History of Architecture. P.661) --Unclevortex 23:40, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


Wait, I just realized that cast iron is a form of steel. Sorry. --Unclevortex 15:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)