The types of elevators a community has used in its history can tell you something about its fascination with upward mobility. In the 19th century in Schuylkill County, the industrial revolution ...

The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was shut down after just three years because customers refused to accept it.

A retired "elevator executive" is opening the city's first Elevator Museum in Long Island City, which he calls "the nexus of the elevator world." What can you expect? Creator Patrick Carrajat has ...

A Long Island City man hopes to lift Queens tourism with the nation’s first elevator museum. Retired elevator executive Patrick Carrajat, 67, has packed 4,000 artifacts he salvaged and bought online ...

SACO – The skyline of this Hi-Line town has changed with the toppling of a 110-foot grain elevator from the 1940s. About 70 people turned out to watch the elevator’s demise, accomplished with a Cat ...

For people who live or work in multi-story buildings, elevators are an integral part of our everyday lives. A century of innovation and popularization has opened previously unimagined possibilities ...

Would you consider the ubiquitous elevator worthy of a shrine? Apparently this humble-seeming mode of transportation has more devotees in New York City than you’d think. There are two different ...