The PNC Bank Building (formerly the National City Bank Building) is a tall

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...

located at 405 Madison Avenue in

Downtown Toledo Downtown Toledo is the central business district of Toledo, Ohio. Both the Warehouse District and the area surrounding the Huntington Center have been areas of recent growth. Major attractions *Fifth Third Field *Hensville *Warehouse Distric ...

, Ohio. The limestone-faced steel-frame building was constructed in 1930 and is an example of the

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

style of architecture. It stood as Toledo's tallest building for 39 years, from its completion in 1930 until the completion of the

Tower on the Maumee Tower on the Maumee (formerly known as ''Fiberglas Tower'') is a skyscraper at 200 North Saint Clair Street in Toledo, Ohio. Constructed in 1969, the building is an example of the international style of architecture. In 2012, the building was l ...

in 1969. The PNC Bank Building is currently the third-tallest building in Toledo.

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*Building Completed: 1930 *No. of Floors: 29 *

Northwest Ohio Northwest Ohio, or Northwestern Ohio, consists of multiple counties in the northwestern corner of the US state of Ohio. This area borders Lake Erie, Southeast Michigan, and northeastern Indiana. Some areas are also considered the Black Swamp are ...

's tallest building from 1930–1969, now ranked as third tallest. *Cost at Completion: $5.5 million *Architect: Mills, Rhines, Bellman & Nordhoff *It is faced with Indiana limestone above a base of Wisconsin black granite. *Entrance features 44-foot arch, African mahogany, and green terrazzo floor. *A point on the building called "Triangulation Station Bank" serves as the reference datum for the city of Toledo

History

The Ohio Bank Building, as it was initially named, was constructed in 1929–30 by the Ohio Savings Bank And Trust for use as their headquarters. The Ohio Savings Bank And Trust occupied the office building for less than a year before the bank went out of business during the

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. In 1935, the

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Glass Company moved their headquarters into the building. The building would remain O-I's headquarters until its move to One SeaGate in 1982. During this period the building was known as the Owens-Illinois Building and a large O-I sign topped the building. When O-I moved out, the iconic sign was donated to

Owens Community College Owens Community College (OCC) is a public community college with campuses in Toledo and Findlay, Ohio. Owens was founded in 1965 in Toledo and chartered in 1967. The Findlay campus opened in 1983. Owens Community College is named after Micha ...

and moved to the campus after being airlifted off the building by a helicopter. The building was purchased from O-I in 1982 by Toledo-based Ohio Citizens Bank, and the building was renamed as the Ohio Citizens Bank Building after O-I departed. The Ohio Citizens Bank subsequently merged with Cleveland, Ohio based National City Bank and in 1992 the building name changed to the National City Bank Building. In 1997 the building was sold by Ohio Citizens Bank for $8.3 million to 405 Madison Ltd. LLC, an investment group headed by local DiSalle Real Estate Co. executive William Thees. The new owners restored much of the original ornamental plaster, gargoyles, terrazzo flooring and travertine marble. In 2008 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based

PNC Financial Services The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (stylized as PNC) is an American bank holding company and financial services corporation based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its banking subsidiary, PNC Bank, operates in 27 U.S. state, states and the D ...

acquired National City Bank, and in 2010 the building was renamed the PNC Bank building. The building at 405 Madison Ave. was sold in 2017 for $9.6 million. The new owner is PLT Holdings, a limited liability company that registered to do business in Ohio in 2013.

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