In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the city as Chicago ushered in the skyscraper era, which would then be followed by many other cities around the world.

In 1885, Ybor moved again, buying land near the then-small city of Tampa, Florida and building the largest cigar factory in the world at the time in the new company town of Ybor City.

Built between 1883 and 1885 and opened for initial occupation in 1884, the twelve-story red-brick building that is now the Hotel Chelsea was one of the city's first private apartment cooperatives.

In 1885 a governor, H E Chetwynd Stapleton, bought a plot of land behind the Jesus Hospital, a building in Wood Street dating back to 1679 ; today the Stapylton field stands in front of the main School building and is used for rugby and cricket.

From Ritzville's designation as county seat in 1884 until 1892, courts were briefly held in rented space before the county purchased a building from N. H. Greene in 1885.

The RCMP chapel frame building was built in 1885 is still standing which was used to jail Indian prisoners.

Etymologically, according to the OED, the word matriarchy is first attested in 1885, building on an earlier matriarch, formed in analogy to patriarch, already in use in the early 17th century.

Continuing the style of the earlier buildings, various designers were responsible for the decoration, the terracotta embellishments were again the work of Godfrey Sykes, although sgraffito was used to decorate the east side of the building designed by F. W. Moody, a final embellishment were the wrought iron gates made as late as 1885 designed by Starkie Gardner, these lead to a passage through the building.

Colonel Jacob Taylor purchased from Enoch Talbert in 1885, with visions of building a seaside resort for the rich and famous.

The new homestead was erected in 1885 and its foundations, walls, and partitions were constructed using brick from the Brigham Brick Yard, situated just north of the library building.

Joseph Pyle constructed many of the commercial buildings along the present-day Exchange Place, including the Roselyn Theater Building in 1867 ( torn down in 1980 ), the National Bank of West Grove building in 1883 and the K & P Building in 1885.

The building was used as a hospital in 1885 when the typhoid epidemic visited that town and scores of people died of the malady.

After the county outgrew the one-story stone building that had housed its public offices, in 1885 an ornate brick courthouse was completed on the square on the south side of the river.

* Thomas Clark Durant ( 1820 – 1885 ), key figure in building the First Transcontinental Railroad

The college moved to its present location in 1885 after building an endowment and seeking the help of the Presbyterian Church.

A new tower was added in 1685 and the building was reconditioned by the Society for Preservation of Ancient Buildings in 1885.

Financial problems were solved when King Oscar II decided to pay for its relocation and restoration as the central building of his private open-air museum near Oslo, where it was completed in 1885.

Finally it should be added that in Zajc's and Kuhač's era, major halls for musical performances and concerts were built: in Zagreb the building of the Croatian Music Institute ( 1876, 1895 ) with a concert hall, and the building of the Croatian National Theatre ( 1895 ), including the theatre buildings in Rijeka ( 1885 ), Split ( 1893 ) and Osijek ( 1907 ) where, along with the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, drama, opera and ballet performances are still played today.

In 1885 The Sun constructed a building for its Washington Bureau at 1317 F Street, NW.

The steel-frame building was designed by architects Albert and Herman Wagner in 1885, as the world's largest lithographic pressworks under a single roof, with its own electricity-generating dynamo.

Next year, H. G. Apenzeller from North Methodist church, who arrived 5 April 1885, started to evangelize with Dr. Scranton and his mother.

Competitions were held around tracks of varying lengths — the 1885 match between Axel Paulsen and Remke van der Zee was skated on a track of 6 / 7 mile ( 1400 metres )— but the 400 metre track was standardised by the ISU in 1892, along with the standard distances for world championships, 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10, 000 m. Skaters started in pairs, each to their own lane, and changed lanes for every lap to ensure that each skater completed the same distance.

It was during this period that he started writing poetry, and, in 1885, Yeats ' first poems, as well as an essay entitled " The Poetry of Sir Samuel Ferguson ", were published in the Dublin University Review.

The Audubon Society started in 1885.

Even the teenage Nguyễn Emperor Hàm Nghi left the Imperial Palace of Huế in 1885 with regent Tôn Thất Thuyết and started the Cần Vương, or " Save the King ", movement, trying to rally the people to resist the French.

The original date of beginning and editors have been lost with the Court House fire, but seems to have been started around April 1885.

Springfield College was founded in 1885 as an international training school for YMCA Professionals, while one of the two schools that eventually became Concordia University — started from night courses offered at the Montreal YMCA.

Laine started leading bands in 1885 before the Jim Crow codes went into effect in New Orleans.

This devotion ( started by Sister Marie and then promoted by the Venerable Leo Dupont ) was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

Fredonia was originally started in 1885 as a business venture by five men who invested time, money, and energy to build a dam so they could create farmland under irrigation.

In 1887, he quit his job with Watkins and opened his own land company ( some sources claim Dr. Knapp started his company in 1885, but the evidence is inconclusive ).

Dairying began to organize as cheese factories started up, like the one at Nasonville in 1885.

The first patent for a toothbrush was by H. N. Wadsworth in 1857 ( US Patent No. 18, 653 ) in the United States, but mass production in the United States only started in 1885.

In Nebraska, Arbor Day falls on April 22, that being the birthday of Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of the national tree-planting holiday that started in 1872, which has been a legal holiday in the state since 1885.

In 1885 he started working with the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington, D. C. under John Wesley Powell.

At university, he started publishing a literary magazine called ' Ken ' yūsha ' ( Friend of the ink stone ) in 1885 with his friends.

In March 1882, Palm started the newspaper Folkviljan ( Will of the People ) in Malmö, and acted as its editor until 1885, when it was discontinued.

In 1885 Belyayev started his own publishing house in Leipzig, Germany, initially publishing music by Glazunov, Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin at his own expense.

In 1885, the first transatlantic telegraph cable of the Commercial Cable Company was brought ashore and the company started a long association with the town, ending in 1962.

Manfredo Manfredi won the competition, and started work in 1885.

A £ 10, 000 ( 2010: £) gift by Sir Richard and George Tangye started a new drive for an art gallery and, in 1885, following other donations and £ 40, 000 from the council, the Prince of Wales officially opened the new gallery.

Massenet started composing Werther in 1885, completing it in 1887 and submitting it to the director of the Paris Opéra-Comique Leon Carvalho that year who declined to accept it on the grounds that it was too serious a scenario.

The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann ( 1863 – 1951 ) of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling under his own trade-name in London.

Later on March 1, 1885, the Yamanote Line started operation.