Posted May 20, 200421 yr Almost every major city in Ohio has one - the pre-WWII landmark tower. Here's a few pics I've taken of my favorites, enjoy: Terminal Tower, Cleveland (708 feet, 52 stories, 1930): Carew Tower, Cincinnati (574 feet, 49 floors, 1931) LeVeque Tower, Columbus (555 feet, 47 floors, 1930) Yes, I know that Akron, Dayton, Toledo, Lima, and Youngstown have them as well - all in good time :) clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
May 20, 200421 yr Both Carew Tower, LeVeque, and Terminal are all "classics." IMO, neither is better than the other, in all honesty, and all three are fantastic. Granted Dayton's Liberty Tower; Akron's First National Tower; Toledo's Owens-Illinois; blah blah are all wonderful as well. I suppose old towers are the way to unite Ohio skylines. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 20, 200421 yr In defense of the Carew Tower, MayDay's photo is not of the building's more impressive side. That's the back of it. There is more ornamentation on the Fountain Square side and it doesn't look lopsided when viewed from the east since the Netherland Hilton Hotel is behind it rather than in front of it from that direction. I wouldn't want to rank them anyway. They are all great. That Pope is such a troublemaker. :sad:
May 21, 200421 yr great thread. some of mine from different angles columbus cleveland cincinnati dayton akron mansfield canton cincinnati doesn't lose...mansfield does :lol:
May 21, 200421 yr OK...someone please post the signature buildings of Bucyrus, New Philadelphia and Lancaster. Oh yeah--and Mansfield for the pope.
May 21, 200421 yr OK...someone please post the signature buildings of Bucyrus, New Philadelphia and Lancaster. Oh yeah--and Mansfield for the pope. and mansfield is already on here....or are you just joking about these places
May 22, 200421 yr With credit to Montecarloss's cincyimages.com site here are a couple of better views of the Carew Tower: And from urbanohio:
May 22, 200421 yr OK...someone please post the signature buildings of Bucyrus' date=' New Philadelphia and Lancaster. Oh yeah--and Mansfield for the pope.[/quote'] and mansfield is already on here....or are you just joking about these places DING DING DING DING!!!
May 22, 200421 yr I think the "PNC" branded tower fits in better with the other two. The Carew Tower is just a differnet style, even if it is grander.
May 23, 200421 yr You have a good point hydrobond, though the Carew Tower and Leveque are about the same height and closer to the height of Terminal Tower. By the way, I wonder why PNC still has its logo on the 4th and Vine Tower as it is now known. They don't really occupy much of the building.
May 24, 200421 yr No. to the height of the flag pole is like 760ish, isn't it MayDay? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 24, 200421 yr Found this pic I took of Youngstown's "Grande Dame" - I think it looks terrific at 224 feet, but would look just as good at 600+; I just love the lines and proportion: clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
May 24, 200421 yr It's a wonderful building...except the sides. They could've been part of the ornamentation, somehow... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 27, 200420 yr wow, 1930-1931 was a great time for Ohio's skylines! Great Depression my ass :crack:
June 30, 200420 yr The Terminal Tower bears a resemblance to those "stalinist" skyscrapers they have in Moscow and Warsaw. I have to say that white skyscraper from Columbus is excellent, especially the way the details erupt at the top of the tower (bas-relief fascis?, Indians?) .And the one from Youngstown is also quite good for deco. I lreally ike the massing on the Carew Tower, but I think that building, and the adjacent Netherland hotel really shine on the inside. The outside, above the ground and second floor base treatment, seems to be a bit restrained, probably due to the brickwork.
June 30, 200420 yr That photo of the Carew Tower w. the Tyler Davidson Fountain says it all. That could be a travel poster for Cincy. Thanks for posting that.
July 1, 200420 yr "The Terminal Tower bears a resemblance to those "stalinist" skyscrapers they have in Moscow and Warsaw." True, but there's a stronger resemblance to NYC's Municipal Building by McKim, Mead and White: Also, most of the 'stalinist' towers didn't come along until 20-some years after the Terminal Tower was completed. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
July 8, 200420 yr Talk about New England influences lol. Wow i almost thought that was the terminal for a second there. Although i think the municipal building in nyc is shorter.
July 8, 200420 yr http://www.clevelandpublicart.org/projects/Promenade_Project/detroit-superior%20bridge%20from%20west.jpg" width="700"> this ones my favorite photo of the terminal
July 19, 200420 yr 1927:365 feet:Inspiration for the "Daily Planet Building" in SuperMan. http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=159335
January 7, 200520 yr I think I prefer Cincinnati's PNC Tower. I never noticed Ohio had so many old towers.
January 11, 200520 yr The Great Depression didn't sink to its worst until 1933, and buildings like the Terminal Tower were proposed in the late teens, with construction starting in the early to mid 1920s when the economy was humming along. One can only imagine what Ohio skylines would look like if the Great Depression hadn't happened. In Cleveland, it wasn't until the late 1950s before another 20+ story building went up (The Illuminating Co. building), and by then, architectural philosophies had taken a turn for the boring. KJP "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 13, 200520 yr ^not to take away from you KJP, but i'm pretty sure every city could say that, fuck even detroit had a 88 story tory proposed............
January 16, 200520 yr That just emphasizes my point as to what the Great Depression (and, for that matter, WWII) did to slow the development of cities. In fact, a friend of mine in Chicago had a rather telling statement...it was something to the effect that, by the time WWII ended, America forgot how to build cities. Based on our attempts in the decades that followed WWII, I'd say his comment is 100% right (although, America did a pretty nice job rebuilding Western European cities after the war). LBJ's Great Society was supposed to be a Marshall Plan for US cities, but even if the Vietnam War hadn't siphoned money from the Great Society, I seriously doubt America would have done it right (see Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" from 1961, the principles of which have only started to be embraced). KJP "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
April 1, 200520 yr Ohio's "big" cities aren't the only ones with impressive towers from the late 20s and 30s. This building is in downtown Middletown. Previously known as the Middletown Federal Savings Bank building, it is today 5/3 with Rogers Jewelers operating their store on the ground floor. The only art-deco style building in Middletown, it has been very well maintained (wish I could say that about other buildings downtown). From urbanohio.com
April 1, 200520 yr That intersection in Middletown is sort of a small skyscraper museum as there is the deco building, and also a modern and a "beaux-arts" "or "classical high rise on the other two corners. But yes, deco is probably the quintessential skyscraper style..it's tough to screw up with a deco design, where even "average" examples, like the Middletown one, work well ... You should search around here for the Steubenville thread, as that city has some pretty impressive "small" skyscrapers.
May 29, 200619 yr New owners polish LeVeque Tower Monday, May 29, 2006 Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH A year after it was acquired by a Detroit real-estate investor, the LeVeque Tower is being rehabbed inside and outside. Workers have been reattaching the terra-cotta shingles that cover the 555.5-foot-tall building at the northeast corner of Broad and Front streets. The new owners, led by Detroit resident David Friedman, have been renovating inside space as it is leased and sprucing up common areas. "The point of this building is to be a fun and lively place," said Eric Levy, leasing manager for Friedman Real Estate Group Inc. "By no means is there a formula. We want people to visualize their own space." Levy said the company has leased 40,000 square feet of the 353,000-square-foot building in the past six months. The biggest portion will be taken by the Ohio Legal Rights Service, which will lease 18,000 square feet when it moves in August from its long-time location in the Atlas Building. Jeffrey Folkerth, administrative services director for the advocacy group for the handicapped, said one reason for the move was the price: less than $10 per square foot. Also, he said the move will allow the service to put all of its employees on the same floor. "We’re sad to leave the Atlas Building, but in these times of economic need, we really need to make the move," Folkerth said. The LeVeque Tower is one of the city’s architectural masterpieces. Designed in 1927 by Charles Howard Crane, it consists of a 19-story base structure and a 27-floor tower. There are two apartments at the top of the building. But the LeVeque is not a standard skyscraper, and tenants typically require some creativity to carve out their space. Tenants higher than the 37 th floor, for example, have to transfer from one elevator bank to another. Yet because of the varied floor layouts, many of the spaces are unique. For example, an office on the 32 nd floor offers arched windows on three sides. Other floors have original office doors and fluted glass. The new owners are renovating the building as needed. For example, some floors have been redone, including new lighting, new carpeting and wallpaper in the hallways. Other improvements include an improved mezzanine conference room and a plasma television in a second-floor lunch area. Folkerth said Friedman Real Estate is working on making the building accessible for people in wheelchairs. The LeVeque couldn’t accommodate a move like the owners of the former Borden Building did by attracting OhioHealth, which is bringing 350 employees Downtown in 90,000 square feet of space. Levy said the biggest space available in the LeVeque is about 38,000 square feet. "There are negatives to any building, but we’ve had at it," Levy said. http://dispatch.com/business-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/05/29/20060529-F8-00.html
May 30, 200619 yr ^ I like the subtle lighting. Very nice. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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