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The Equitable Building in Manhattan, built in 1915, which prompted the adoption of modern height and setback controls.
The Equitable Building in Des Moines, Iowa, a neo-gothic high-rise built in 1924 that was for many years the tallest building in Iowa.
The Equitable Building in Portland, Oregon (now known as the Commonwealth Building), designed by Pietro Belluschi and finished in 1948. It is .
The Equitable Building in Atlanta, Georgia, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and built in 1968

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New Georgia Encyclopedia: John Wellborn Root (1850-1891) (500 words)
	In Atlanta the firm designed the Equitable Building (later the Trust Company of Georgia Building) in 1890 for the Atlanta developer Joel Hurt.
	Although the eight-story building would today not be considered tall, its steel-frame construction and monumental presence made it the city's pioneer skyscraper.
	The Equitable Building was the only structure Root is known to have designed in Georgia, although there are undocumented reports of others.

NEW YORK SCRAPERS - EARLY CENTURY II (2599 words)
	The outrage subsequently led to the restriction of continuous vertical growth of tall buildings by the introduction of the 1916 zoning regulations by city authorities.
	An indication of the bulk of the building was the fact that it remained the largest office building (by internal volume) in the world until the Empire State Building of 1931.
	The building site is only 15 m wide and 27.5 m deep, and the architects remarked that they wanted to make the building "a model for the tall, narrow building in the center of a city block." And it was regarded as such for the next decade of feverish urban construction.

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