The Guardian Bank Building (originally known as the New England Building and later known as the National City Bank Building) is a
high-rise building on
Euclid Avenue in
downtown
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Cleveland
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,
Ohio
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.
Description and history
It was built in 1896 and stands adjacent to
National City Center. At tall, it was once one of the tallest buildings in America and tallest in Cleveland until 1922 when it was surpassed by the
Keith Building
The Keith Building is a skyscraper in downtown Cleveland, Ohio's Playhouse Square theater district. The Keith is 272 feet tall and 21 stories, and houses the Palace Theater, a former flagship theater of the Keith vaudeville circuit. Retrieved on ...
. The building was designed by the firm of
Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge
Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge was a successful architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, operating between 1886 and 1915, with extensive commissions in monumental civic, religious, and collegiate architecture in the spirit and style of Henry ...
and remodeled by
Walker and Weeks
Walker and Weeks was an architecture firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Frank Ray Walker (September 29, 1877 - July 9, 1949) and Harry E. Weeks (October 2, 1871 - December 21, 1935).
Background
Harry Weeks was born October 2, 1871, in W. S ...
in 1915. It was converted to a
Holiday Inn Express
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in 1999, and added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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on September 8, 2000.
In January 2010, Rosetta, the largest independent interactive agency in America, announced plans to move into the Guardian Bank Building. The plans, announced in conjunction with the signing of a 10-year lease, include stripping and remodeling the top five floors, building a new penthouse suite on the roof, and renaming the building. In March 2012, developers announced plans to convert five stories into 85 apartments.
See also
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List of Registered Historic Places in Cleveland, Ohio __NOTOC__
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cleveland, Ohio.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. ...
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List of tallest buildings in Cleveland
Cleveland, the second-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio, is home to 142 completed high-rises, 36 of which stand taller than . The tallest building in Cleveland is the 57-story Key Tower, which rises on Public Square. The tower has be ...
References
External links
Holiday Inn Express Cleveland - Downtown
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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
Skyscraper hotels in Cleveland
Commercial buildings completed in 1896
Apartment buildings in Cleveland
National Register of Historic Places in Cleveland, Ohio
Beaux-Arts architecture in Ohio