Built for $179 million by the Van Sweringen brothers, the tower was to serve as an office building atop the city's new rail station, the Cleveland Union Terminal. Originally planned to be 14 stories, the structure was expanded to 52 floors with a height of 708 feet (216 m).

The CLEVELAND UNION TERMINAL and Terminal Tower, Cleveland's most familiar landmark, was the largest construction project of the 1920s in the city. Originally intended for the north end of the MALL, the railroad terminal was located on PUBLIC SQUARE by ORIS P. AND MANTIS J. VAN SWERINGEN following a public referendum in 1919.

May 14, 2021 · The Terminal Tower rises up 771 feet above Public Square in downtown Cleveland, and is one of the most iconic and recognizable buildings in the city’s skyline. Built during the “skyscraper boom” of the 1920s and ’30s, Terminal Tower opened as an office building in 1928 atop Cleveland’s new rail station, Cleveland Union Terminal (so ...

Despite its eclipse by a later, taller skyscraper, the 52-story, 708-foot-tall Terminal Tower was an instant icon and has arguably remained Cleveland’s most potent symbol. The Terminal Tower, at least as a plan, didn’t start as a tower at all, but instead as a railway station known as the Cleveland Union...

The Cleveland Union Terminal Collection is the archives of the company that built the Terminal Tower, the union passenger station, the complex of office buildings, post office, department store and the infrastructure of tracks, bridges, signals, electrical catenary structures and yard facility buildings necessary to switch passenger coaches ...

Nov 3, 2023 · Terminal Tower is why Daniel Burnham’s Group Plan was never completed. The Van Sweringens convinced everyone (or at least those that mattered) to build the Cleveland Terminal Group instead.

Though its industrial might was sapped, though it had just slipped from fifth to sixth among the nation’s largest cities, Cleveland had this: a train terminal bigger than Grand Central Station, capped by a tower 708 feet high, the world's tallest building outside New York.

The Cleveland Union Terminal is located on Level 72.5 where it stretches from West 6 th Street to the West, West 2 nd Street to the East, Huron Road to the South and just North of Prospect Avenue underneath the Terminal Tower to the North.

Apr 22, 2021 · Recently, however, a rail advocacy group voted to recommend moving Cleveland Amtrak station back to Tower City. The group, All Aboard Ohio, said the Tower City location is more centrally...

Apr 3, 2022 · CLEVELAND — Standing tall in the Cleveland skyline is a structure synonymous with the city itself: Terminal Tower, the 52-story landmark skyscraper located in Public Square. It remains an...