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Isaac Kremer/ September 9, 2018/

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The glossary/crystal-palace/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="a92b7507dbfa3b4b0b8cc45dd3eba64b" target="_blank" >Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton at the Great Exhibition of 1851 was an early example of iron and glass construction, followed in 1864 by the first glass and metal curtain-wall-2/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="e2f44f9fb5aa8a72012c72fd3f4eaf32" target="_blank" >curtain-wall/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="af0d9735108973c495fc9cb57c4fe84c" target="_blank" >curtain wall. A further development was that of the steel-framed skyscraper in Chicago around 1890 by William Le Baron Jenney and Louis Sullivan. Photo from Seattle, Washington, 2019. (Buffalo, 2017)

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IsaacKremer.com is the personal website of Isaac Kremer, MSARP, a nationally recognized leader in the Main Street Approach to commercial district revitalization with over 25 years of experience. Kremer, New Jersey's first certified Main Street America Revitalization Professional (MSARP), has served as founding executive director for organizations like Experience Princeton and the Metuchen Downtown Alliance, which won a Great American Main Street Award under his leadership. He recently became director of the Royal Oak Downtown Development Authority in Michigan.