Martin Tower

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The Martin Tower is the tallest building in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the greater Lehigh Valley. The building has 21 stories and is 330 feet tall making it the tallest in the Lehigh Valley by being 8 feet taller than the PPL Building.

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In 1972, Bethlehem Steel built Martin Tower as a new headquarters for the company. The building was constructed in the shape of a cross rather than a more conventional square shape in order to create more corner and window offices. The original offices were designed by decoraters from New York and were full of wooden fruniture, doorknobs with the company logo, and handwoven carpets. The building was a testament to the economic heights the Lehigh Valley reached in the 1970s before the large economic turndown caused by the decline of the steel industry.

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