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Daniel Burnham’s Flatiron Building (1902) was one of the first to use steel girders to hold up the b

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Daniel Burnham’s Flatiron Building (1902) was one of the first to use steel girders to hold up the building; this allowed the outside masonry to be decorative stone. In mid-century, architects eliminated the outside wall entirely, encasing steel-framed buildings in walls of glass.
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