16 East Broad Street is a building on

Capitol Square Capitol Square is a public square in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The square includes the Ohio Statehouse, its Capitol Grounds, as well as the buildings and features surrounding the square. The Capitol Grounds are surrounded on the north and west ...

Downtown ''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

. Completed in 1901, the building stands at a height of , with 13 floors. It stood as the tallest building in the city until being surpassed by

8 East Broad Street 8 East Broad Street is a building on Capitol Square in Downtown Columbus, Ohio, Downtown Columbus, Ohio. Built in 1906, it was the tallest building in the city until the LeVeque Tower was built in 1927. The architect was Frank Packard.Jeffrey T. D ...

in 1906. From 1927 to 1939, the eleventh floor of the building served as the office for the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...

. Joseph F. Carr, a Columbus native, was president of the NFL at the time.

References

External links

* Skyscraper office buildings in Columbus, Ohio Buildings in downtown Columbus, Ohio Office buildings completed in 1900 Chicago school architecture in Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Columbus, Ohio Broad Street (Columbus, Ohio) {{ColumbusOH-struct-stub