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Identification
Name
Terminal Tower
Emporis Building ID
121783
Location
Main address
40-60 Public Square
Virtual address
240 West Prospect Avenue
Address as text
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ZIP
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Complex
Tower City Center
Zone
Tower City
District
Downtown
City
Cleveland
State
Ohio
Country
U.S.A.
Map and Surrounding Area
Technical Data
Height (tip)
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Height (architectural)
215.80 m
Height (roof)
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Floors (above ground)
52
Construction start
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Construction end
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Construction costs
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Structure in General
Construction type
skyscraper
Current status
existing [completed]
Structural material
steel
Facade material
granite
limestone
Facade system
applied masonry
Architectural style
beaux-arts
Usages
Main usages
commercial office
Features and Amenities
National landmark
One of the city's famous buildings
Facts
Opened as Cleveland Union Terminal and dedicated by the Van Sweringen brothers, Oris Paxton and Mantis James.
1,400 buildings on 35 acres were razed to make way for the Cleveland Union Terminal project whose tower was originally designed as a 14-storey structure with a 5-storey cupola.
The Terminal Tower was "topped off" on August 18, 1927.
Second-tallest building in the world when completed in 1930.
The Terminal Tower is built on "air rights" over railroad tracks.
The steel-reinforced concrete supports for the Terminal Tower reach bedrock approximately 250 feet below ground level.
Tallest building in North America outside New York until surpassed by Boston's Prudential Tower in 1964.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as part of the Union Terminal Group.
The Terminal Tower has a 63 foot flagpole at its top, which brings the total tip height of the building to 771 feet.
The tower proper is 98 feet square.
Companies involved in this building

architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, Herman, Gibans, Fodor, Inc.

Other companies:
Forest City Enterprises, John Gill & Sons, Carnegie Steel Company, Safway Scaffolding, Barber & Hoffman, Inc., The Van Sweringen Co., Waco Scaffolding & Equipment
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