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Title
A.
I
.
U
.
Citadel
Subject
Leveque Tower (Columbus, Ohio)
Art deco (Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.)
Columbus (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Pictorial works
Central business districts
Skyscrapers
Ohio--History--Pictorial works
Federal Writers' Project
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Columbus (Ohio)
Franklin County (Ohio)
Description
The
American
Insurance
Union
Citadel
,
located
at
50
West
Broad
Street
at the
corner
of
Front
Street
, was
designed
by
architect
C
.
Howard
Crane
in the
Art
Deco
style
with
touches
of a
more
modern
version
of the
Byzantine
. The
47-story
tall
skyscraper
,
designed
mainly
as
office
space
,
rises
to an
elevation
of
555.5
feet
, and was
built
to be
6
inches
taller
than the
Washington
Monument
.
Two
18-story
wings
flank
the
building
; on the
east
, the
4
,
000
seat
Keith-Albee
Theater
(now
the
Palace
Theater)
, and on the
west
the
600
room
Deshler-Wallick
Hotel
. The
steel-frame
building
,
completed
in
1927
at a
cost
of
$7
,
800
,
000
, was the
first
building
in
Ohio
to be
erected
on a
caisson
foundation
.
It
was the
fifth
tallest
building
in the
world
for a
time
, and the
tallest
building
in the
city
until
1974
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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File Name
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Image Height
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Image Width
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File Size
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Format
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Date created
2010-04-20
Date modified
2011-06-07
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