The Heyburn Building is a 17-floor, 250-foot (76-m) building in

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. In the early 20th century, it was an integral part of the "magic corner" of Fourth Street and Broadway, which rivaled Main Street as Louisville's business district. It occupies the lot that was the location of the Avery mansion, home of Louisville suffragist, Susan Look Avery. This block of West Broadway had been a posh residential corridor prior to the commercial transition of which the Heyburn Building composed a part. The

Classical Revival Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy and France. It became one of the most prominent architectural styles in the Western world. The prevailing style ...

-style Heyburn Building was completed in 1928. It was built by and named for William R. Heyburn, president of

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. It was designed by the

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firm of

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. It was the tallest building in Kentucky until a vertical addition of the defunct Commonwealth Building was completed in 1955. The Heyburn Building has since gone through several owners and renovations, the largest of which occurred in 1983 at a cost of $6 million. It was added to the

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in 1979. On January 21, 2010, a man committed suicide by jumping to his death from the building's top floor.Man who jumped from Heyburn building identified
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Building page on Emporis
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