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Cities Raised Their Streets 20 Feet And Hoped Nobody Would Notice

Your basement has windows designed for sunlight from a street that's currently six feet above them. Either Victorian architects built cities upside-down, or someone buried the first floor. Look at any old building downtown—those ornate "basements" with marble columns and decorative arches weren't always underground. Between eighteen fifty and nineteen hundred, dozens of cities raised their streets by ten to twenty feet and called it "routine engineering." You can visit Underground Seattle and Underground Atlanta today—entire buried cities still there, documented and accessible. The evidence exists. What's missing is why every major city decided the ground was in the wrong place at exactly the same time.