Airplanes have no 13th aisle.
Do buildings not have a 13th floor.
The origin of skipping the thirteenth floor when installing elevators is not known.
While the 14 th floor is actually the 13 th floor for obvious structural reasons guests seem to take comfort in the fact that the number 13 is not mentioned at all.
Real estate agents tend not to have problems selling units on the particular floor but the fact is that most buildings lack them anyway.
But if there is even a minuscule chance that a 13th floor unit won t sell due to superstition then a developer will just as quickly avoid the risk and skip from 12 to 14.
However during the advent of early skyscrapers new york architectural critics warned developers not to exceed the height of the 13th floor.
Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
Starting in the 20th century when skyscrapers began cropping up in bigger cities buildings overwhelmingly forwent marking the 13th floor because of simple economics.
And others are sneaky and find ways to get around it like floor 12a.
Skyscrapers did not come about until 1885.
Many airports skip the 13th gate.
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Many cities do not.
In fact the otis elevators company estimates that 85 of the buildings with their elevators don t have a named 13th floor.
They didn t want to give anyone a reason not to want to rent space in their building.
A good example is that some have suggested the 13th floor in government buildings is not really missing but actually contains top secret governmental departments or more generally that it is proof of something sinister or clandestine going on.
But as rational thought will dictate hotels and buildings higher than 12 floors of course have a 13th floor however they do away with it by simply renaming it something else.
Eventually this time and culture spanning superstition made its way to the architecture of america.
Prices for 13th floor apartments the handful of them that exist don t sell at a discount according to jonathan.
Pulling a number out of the floor plan serves to make a building seem taller.
These critics insisted that buildings rising above the 13th floor 130 feet or 40 metres would lead to increased street congestion ominous shadows and lower.
Of course not all hotels skip the 13th floor.
Even then the first skyscraper the home insurance building was.
Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
More than 80 percent of high rises lack a 13th floor.
