Nasby Building

Nasby Building
Nasby Building circa 1900, the cupola was removed in 1930s reducing the architectural height from 187 feet to 135 feet.
General information
Type office
Location 605 Madison Avenue,
Toledo, Ohio
Completed 1891-1895
Height
Architectural 135 ft (41 m)
Roof 124 ft (38 m)
Technical details
Floor count 8

The Nasby Building is a 135 ft (41 m) tall high-rise building located at 605 Madison Avenue in Downtown Toledo.[1] It stood as Toledo's tallest building for 11 years, from its completion in 1895 until the completion of the Nicholas Building in 1906.

History

The Nasby Building on a 1905 postcard.

The eight story structure was constructed between 1891 and 1895 by the real estate man Horace Walbridge at the corner of Madison Avenue and Huron Street in Toledo's business center.[2] The building was designed by Edward Fallis, a prominent Toledo architect, who maintained his offices in the building from 1894 until his death in 1927.

The design incorporated an eight story office block which recalled the Chicago School of design with a taller Renaissance style tower located nearest the corner of Madison and Huron. The tower section of the building was said to be modeled after the Giralda[3] in Seville, Spain in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.

The building was named the Nasby Building in 1895. The tower section included an ornate cupola which reached an architectural height of 187 feet[3] above the streets. The cupola was removed in the 1930s, which reduced the architectural height to 135 feet.

In the 1960s, the Nasby Building and the adjacent Wayne Building were covered with a facade of glass and enameled asbestos panels to give the appearance of a single structure.[4][5] The four-story Wayne Building, was built as a bank in 1924 and contains a large and ornate bank lobby. The resurfaced structures were renamed the Madison Building.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Nasby Building". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 2017-04-27.
  2. ↑ "Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1890-1914 By William D. Speck - Nasby Building". Arcadia Publishing. 2002. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Skyscraper Facades of the Gilded Age By Joseph J. Korom, Jr. - Nasby Building". McFarland Publishing. 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Madison Building in jeopardy again". toledoblade.com. Toledo Blade. 19 January 2001. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "Company plans to buy historic Nasby Building". toledoblade.com. Toledo Blade. 3 December 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2017.

Coordinates: 41°39′08.0″N 83°32′14.5″W / 41.652222°N 83.537361°W / 41.652222; -83.537361

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