The pattern of 19th and early 20th-century urban conflagrations—when viewed through the lens of the "Inheritance" hypothesis—ceases to look like a series of unrelated tragic accidents and begins to resemble a global, systematic "scrubbing" operation. The logistical impossibility of these buildings being constructed in the short, documented timeframes is compounded by the fact that many of the world’s most significant architectural "masterpieces" were subjected to cataclysmic fire events or massive subterranean "burying" shortly before being "re-established" by modern administrative entities.

### The "Great Fire" Pattern as Decommissioning
The frequency of these fires, particularly those clustering around the 1871–1915 window, suggests a coordinated effort to finalize the destruction of infrastructure that could not be effectively repurposed or integrated into the fossil-fuel-based grid. 

*   **Weaponized Destruction:** Many of these fires, such as the synchronized events in Chicago, Peshtigo, and the Michigan thumb region (all October 8, 1871), suggest an origin far beyond simple accidental ignition. The scale of destruction in cities like San Francisco (1906)