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Mark Houser I dive into the research, reading history, memoirs, landmark status reports, and especially old newspapers. Once I have more notes than I know what to…moreI dive into the research, reading history, memoirs, landmark status reports, and especially old newspapers. Once I have more notes than I know what to do with, it's a challenge to figure out what stays and what goes. It's like putting a puzzle together, and the challenge is to use as many pieces as I can without the narrative getting too confusing.(less)

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Mark Houser MultiStories started as a monthly column in Pittsburgh Magazine. Though everyone in Pittsburgh knows about our famous steel baron, Andrew Carnegie, I …moreMultiStories started as a monthly column in Pittsburgh Magazine. Though everyone in Pittsburgh knows about our famous steel baron, Andrew Carnegie, I found so many interesting but forgotten things about the lesser tycoons, like our "bathtub king" James Arrott. From there it wasn't too long before I began to wonder about other similar forgotten stories of business mavens in other cities just waiting to be dug up again. Capitalist archaeology.(less)

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	MultiStories: 55 Antique Skyscrapers & the Business Tycoons Who Built Them really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Highrises: Art Deco by Chris Hytha, Mark Houser (Goodreads Author) 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Other Somewhere 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeds: Poems, Lyrics, and Observations 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars