Posted June 2, 200619 yr I realize there is emporis, but I noticed emporis has some stats that are wrong/lacking (especially for Toledo), so I figured we'd start our own thread here (pictures optional): TOLEDO 1. One Seagate Tower: 411 feet, 32 stories, 1982 2. Fiberglass Tower: 400 feet, 30 stories, 1970 3. National City Tower: 368 feet, 27 stories, 1932 4. Disalle Government Center: 328 feet, 22 stories, 1982 5. Riverfront Apartments: 315-ish feet, 23 stories, 1912 6. HCR Manor Care Tower: 275-ish feet, 18 stories, 1988 7. Edison Plaza: 250-ish feet, 16 stories, 1976 8. Commodore Perry Hotel: 226 feet, 19 stories, 1927 9. Fifth Third Center: 215-ish feet, 19 stories, 1906 10. Pilkington Tower: 210 feet, 15 stories, 1960 The numbers I have for Riverfront Apartments and Fifth Third Center are different from emporis, since both buildings have two maintenance floors on top of their occupied floors. Emporis ignores the maintenance floors on these two building for some reason, but then includes them on their Commodore Perry number. :| Toledo also has a couple buildings that are about the same size as the Pilkington Tower (maybe even taller) that I have never seen heights for. The 19-story Hotel Seagate and the 17-story Downtown Radisson Hotel both come to mind...so there could be about 3 or 4 buildings tied for the 10th spot. Also, One Seagate is many times printed at 440 feet tall.
June 3, 200619 yr Sorry I broke the rules, but I had to include an 11th sinc QCS is still under way. CINCINNATI 1* Queen City Square: 689 ft, 37 stories, 2008 (about equal to Carew without ornamental top) 1. Carew Tower: 574 ft, 49 stories, 1931 2. PNC Tower: 495 ft, 31 stories, 1913 3. Scripps Center: 468 ft, 26 stories, 1990 4. 5/3 Center: 423 ft, 32 stories, 1969 5. Convergys Center: 410 ft, 29 stories, 1984 6. Chemed Center: 410 ft, 32 stories, 1991 7. Hilton Hotel: 372 ft, 31 stories, 1931 8. Chiquita Center: 368 ft, 29 stories, 1984 9. PNC Center: 354 ft, 27 stories, 1979 10. Atrium II 351 ft, 30 stories, 1984
June 3, 200619 yr DAYTON 1. Kettering Tower: 408 ft, 30 stories, 1970 2. MeadWestvaco Building: 385 ft, 28 stories, 1976 3. One Dayton Center: 336 ft, 20 stories, 1989 4. 40 West 4th Centre: (Miami Valley Tower): 331 ft, 22 stories, 1969 5. Fifth Third Center: 328 ft, 20 stories, 1989 6. Liberty Tower (Hulman Tower): 295 ft, 23 stories, 1931 7. 130 West Second Street: 290 ft, 21 stories, 1972 8. Centre City Building: 274 ft, 21 stories, 1904 9. Performance Place (Schuster Center): 224 ft, 17 stories, 2003 10. Talbott Tower: 203 ft, 14 stories, 1958 Granted, the Kettering Tower information isn't accurate (as I've seen it from 420ft. to 405ft.) and One Dayton Center also has questionable information. Of course, if the CareSource Tower is built, it should be somewhere in the middle of the Top 10. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 3, 200619 yr COLUMBUS 1. Rhodes State Office Tower: 629 ft, 41 stories, 1973 2. LeVeque Tower: 555 ft, 47 stories, 1927 3. William Green Building: 530 ft, 33 stories, 1990 4. Huntington Center: 512 ft, 37 stories, 1984 5. Vern Riffe State Office Tower: 504 ft, 32 stories, 1988 6. One Nationwide Plaza: 485 ft, 40 stories, 1978 7. Franklin County Courthouse: 464 ft, 27 stories, 1991 8. AEP Building: 456 ft, 31 stories, 1983 9. Borden Building: 438 ft, 34 stories, 1974 10. Three Nationwide Plaza: 408 ft, 27 stories, 1988 Interestingly, LeVeque is the same exact height as the Washington Monument. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 3, 200619 yr I've waited as long as I can. Hamilton: 10. Butler County Government Services Center: 230ft, 11 stories, 1999 9. Belle Tower Apartments: 9 floors, 1960's 8. Butler County Courthouse: 4 floors, 1889 7. One Renaissance Center: 8 floors, 2000 6. Ohio Casualty Annex: 8 floors, 1972 5. Key Bank Building: 8 floors, 1908 4. First Financial Bank: 8 floors, 1932 3. Anthony Wayne: 7 floors, 1927 2. Henry Long Tower: 7 floors, 1970's 1. Ringel's Building: 7 floors, 1940's These are based off the correct info from Emporis, an old article from the Journal-News, and my knowledge of floor heights; they are certainly not exact. Two smokestacks at Champion Paper are the city's tallest structures, and church steeples would invade the above list if included.
June 3, 200619 yr Akron: (Not precise by any means) 1. FirstMerit Tower, 27 floors, 330 ft 1931 02. National City Center, 23 floors, 316 ft, 1969 03. First Energy Building, 21 floors, 280 ft, 1976 04. Quaker Oats Cereal Factory / Quaker Square, 12 floors, 218 ft, 1939 05. Mayflower Manor, 16 floors, 207 ft 1931 06. Goodyear Polymer (Univ of Akron), 12 floors, 182 ft 1991 07. Bulger Residence Hall (Univ of Akron), 15 floors, 160 ft 1969 08. Landmark Building, 12 floors, 158 ft, 1925 09. Key Building 11 floors, 150ft, 1911 10. Ameritech Building, 7 floors, 136 ft, 1929
June 3, 200619 yr Interestingly, LeVeque is the same exact height as the Washington Monument. actually, even more interesting, leveque is a couple inches taller (intentionally) they built leveque 555.5 ft knowing wash. monument is 555 even more interesting than that is later on the washington monument was found out to be something like 555.25 or something like that
June 3, 200619 yr Cleveland 1) *Key Tower, 57 Stories, 948 Feet, 1991 (Society Tower) 2) Terminal Tower, 52 Stories, 710 feet, 1930 3) 200 Public Square, 45 Stories, 658 Feet, 1985 (BP America Building) 4) The Tower at Erieview 40 Stories, 529 Feet, 1964 5) One Cleveland Center 31 Stories, 450 Feet, 1983 The rest are from Mayday's site Clevelandskyscrapers.com 6) 5/3 Center 28 Stories, 446 Feet, 1992 (Bank One Center) 7) Federal Courthouse tower, 24 stories, 430 Feet, 2002 Eight) Justice Center, 26 stories, 420 Feet, 1975 9) Anthony J. Celebreeze Federal Building, 32 Stories, 419 Feet, 1967 10) National City Center, 35 Stories, 410 Feet, 1980
June 3, 200619 yr even more interesting than that is later on the washington monument was found out to be something like 555.25 or something like that Hmm... they'd better add a statue of ColDay to the top of LeVeque just in case the next measurement of the Washington Monument comes up with an even higher number.
June 3, 200619 yr 1) Cleveland 5420ft (including Key spire) 2) Columbus 4981ft 3) Cincinnati 4554ft (including ornamental top) 4) Dayton 3068ft 5) Toledo 2998ft 6) Akron 2107ft
June 3, 200619 yr Key Tower w/out spire =888 feet I don't think including the spire is cheating because the structure is infact 948 feet tall, even if 60 feet are spire.:) The 57th Floor is still just mud and taped drywall. It was supposed to be Dick Jacobs' office, but he never had the floor finished. So its 56 occupied floors and I'm not sure about the pyramid.
June 4, 200619 yr What the hell, I'm bored so what about the next 10? 11. US Bank Tower: 350 ft., 26 stories, 1981 12. Milennium Hotel: 349 ft., ? 13. URS Building: 321 ft., 26 stories, 1989 14. Kroger Building: 319 ft., 25 stories, 1959 15. Federated Building: 318 ft., 21 stories, 1979 16. P&G Towers (2): 314 ft, 17 stories, 1985 17. 525 Vine Center: 308 ft., 23 stories, 1985 18. 312 Elm: 305 ft., 25 stories, 1992 19. National City: 278 ft., 20 stories, 1968 20. Cinergy (Duke): 272 ft., 18 stories, 1929 Sorry I broke the rules, but I had to include an 11th sinc QCS is still under way. CINCINNATI 1* Queen City Square: 689 ft, 37 stories, 2008 (about equal to Carew without ornamental top) 1. Carew Tower: 574 ft, 49 stories, 1931 2. PNC Tower: 495 ft, 31 stories, 1913 3. Scripps Center: 468 ft, 26 stories, 1990 4. 5/3 Center: 423 ft, 32 stories, 1969 5. Convergys Center: 410 ft, 29 stories, 1984 6. Chemed Center: 410 ft, 32 stories, 1991 7. Hilton Hotel: 372 ft, 31 stories, 1931 8. Chiquita Center: 368 ft, 29 stories, 1984 9. PNC Center: 354 ft, 27 stories, 1979 10. Atrium II 351 ft, 30 stories, 1984
June 4, 200619 yr Well..I counted QCS in the top ten when I added the heights together....is that being built now or to be started in 2008?
June 5, 200619 yr Key Tower is 888 feet to the top of the "pyramid", and the spire is 60 feet which brings the official height to 948 feet. The pyramid contains 6 maintenance/storage floors (the Starbucks in the lobby uses the 59th for storage), the tower has a total of 57 occupiable floors (finished or not, 57 is occupiable) for a grand total of 63 floors. Wanna split hairs? 57+6. Terminal Tower is 708 feet. The flagpole is 70 feet, but not included in the official height - if it were, Terminal would be 778 feet. It has 52 floors, period. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
June 5, 200619 yr Well..I counted QCS in the top ten when I added the heights together....is that being built now or to be started in 2008? 2008 is not a techical number...it would be my speculation (sorry if it was misleading). They have said construction will begin once 60% (I believe) of the tower is pre-leased. I would hope that could be done relatively soon and thus the beginning of construction would follow. Maybe late '08 or early '09 would be a good completion date for my estimates.
June 12, 200619 yr Oh jeez. I think some trees might be taller than our tallest buildings in Norwalk; then again, the grain elevator probably takes the cake :)
June 12, 200619 yr I didn't know about Queen City Square... I just looked up a picture of it...nice looking building. Any major corporations occupying it?
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