Editor’s Note: Read more unknown and curious design origin stories here. The first passenger elevator got off to a slow start. Installed in 1857 at the Haughwout Department Store in New York, it was ...

You probably don't think twice when stepping into an elevator. It's just there, ready to whisk you up to your hotel room on the 30th floor of a Vegas casino or down to the underground parking garage.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homeowners at the 95-year-old Commodore Condominiums voted Wednesday to replace the 11-story building’s vintage manual passenger elevator – thought to be the only one of its kind left in Kentucky − ...