Terminal Tower
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The Terminal Tower is a landmark skyscraper located on Public Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. It is a part of the Tower City Center mixed-use development. Major tenants include Forest City Enterprises (corporate headquarters and current building owner) and Riverside Company.
It was built by the Van Sweringen brothers to serve as an office building atop the city's new rail station, Union Terminal. The top of the 52-floor building is 708 ft (216 m) high.
Designed by the firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White, it was modeled after the Beaux-Arts New York Municipal Building by McKim, Mead, and White. The Terminal Tower opened in 1928, two years before the entire Union Terminal complex was complete. It would remain the tallest building in the world outside of New York City until the completion of the Prudential Center in Boston, Massachusetts in 1967. Since its completion, it has remained one of the most recognizable parts of the Cleveland skyline.
In the 1980s a plan to build a taller building than the Terminal Tower was put forward, but was rejected by city officials who wanted to keep the Terminal Tower as the city's tallest building. The building, the BP Tower (at the time known as the Sohio Building), was scaled down. The Terminal Tower remained the tallest building in Cleveland until the completion of the Key Tower (at the time known as the Society Center) in 1991.
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