Tidewater Building

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Information
Tidewater Building
Location	New Orleans, USA
Status	Complete
Constructed	1971
Use	Office
Height
Antenna/Spire	unknown
Roof	288 feet (88 m)
Top floor	288 feet (88 m)
Technical Details
Floor count	24 [26 actually]
Elevator count	10 total: 6 (G to 24), 3 (G to 12) 1 (24 to 25)
Companies
Architect	Kessels-Diboll-Kessels

The Tidewater Building, also formerly known as Tidewater Place, located at 1440 Canal Street in the Medical District of the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is officially a 24-story, 288 feet (88 m)-tall high-rise building designed in the by Kessels-Diboll-Kessels. The building has lesser-known 25th and 26th floors that are accessible only from the 24th floor and are much smaller in area than the other floors.

It originally was built as the corporate office for Tidewater Marine in 1971. Tidewater Inc. donated the building to Tulane University in 1993. The building is the home to Tulane University Health Sciences Center administrative offices and Tulane's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. A few other Tulane offices are housed there as well. In early 2005, Tulane replaced all external signage which said "Tidewater" with signs that say "Tulane University Health Sciences Center" and "Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine."

WWOZ, radio station 90.7 FM in New Orleans, has its antena and transmitter atop the building. ^[1]

As a result of the deluge from the levees breaking during Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, the building suffered from approximately four feet of floodwaters on the ground floor. Repopulation of the building began in November 2005. ^[2] The building reopened in January 2006.^[3]