Reach for the sky

‘Skyscraper Gothic’ shows a new side of our country’s most ambitious buildings


The Fralin Museum’s visual history of skyscrapers includes Joseph Pennell’s etching “The Woolworth through the Arch.” Image courtesy of the Fralin Museum of Art.

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