The Nicholas Building (Toledo, Ohio)
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|name = Nicholas Building
|image = The Nicholas Building, Toledo, Ohio, June 2022.jpg
|image_size = 250px
|caption = Nicholas Building in 2022
|location = 608 Madison Avenue,
Toledo, Ohio
|coordinates = {{coord|41.653|-83.537|region:US-OH_type:landmark|display=title, inline}}
|completion_date = 1906
|building_type = office
|architectural = {{convert|250|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|floor_count = 17
|owner =
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The Nicholas Building is a {{convert|250|ft|m|abbr=on}} {{cite web |title=Nicholas Building - The Skyscraper Center |url=http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/fifth-third-center/25299 | website = skyscrapercenter.com | publisher = Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat |date=26 March 2017 |accessdate= 26 March 2017 }} tall high-rise building located at 608 Madison Avenue in Downtown Toledo. It stood as Toledo's tallest building for 7 years, from its completion in 1906 until the completion of the Riverfront Apartments building in 1913. The Nicholas Building is currently the seventh-tallest building in Toledo.
History
The seventeen story structure was constructed in 1906 by Toledo business partners A.L. Spitzer and C.M. Spitzer.
{{cite book |title= Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1890-1914 By William D. Speck - Nicholas Building |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Ri7AsvwKsZgC&dq=%E2%80%9Cnamed+for+Nicholas+Spitzer%2C+grandfather+of+cousins+and+business+partners+A.L.+and+C.M.+Spitzer%E2%80%9D&pg=PA88 | website = | publisher = Arcadia Publishing |date= 2002 |isbn = 9780738519784|accessdate= 1 May 2017 }} The Spitzer cousins named the building after their grandfather, Nicholas Spitzer. The building was designed by Norval Bacon and Thomas Huber, partners of the Toledo architectural firm of Bacon & Huber.
{{cite web |title= Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo... Volume 2 - Bacon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y98yAQAAMAAJ&dq=%E2%80%9CSpitzer+and+Nicholas+buildings%2C+noteworthy+as+being+the+largest+and+most+modern+office+buildings+in+the+Northwest%2C+were+also+designed+by+Bacon+%26+Huber%E2%80%9D&pg=PA348 | website = | publisher = Western Historical Association |date= 1910 |accessdate= 1 May 2017 }} The Nicholas Building was described in 1910 as one of the "largest and most modern office buildings in the Northwest”, the area known today as the East North Central States.
View from the Nicholas Building, Toledo, Ohio - DPLA - 5914e6e99b332b87882a7b8b9198b9dd (page 1).jpg|none|upright=2.0|View from the Nicholas Building, undated
Nicholas Building, Toledo, Ohio.jpg|Nicholas Building circa 1910
See also
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