Hanna building

Hannah Tower was named after Marcus Allonzot Hannah, a famous senator from Ohio and an oil and coal tycoon, and was built by his son Daniel Rhodes Hannah. Hannah is probably best known for supporting william mckinley's presidential campaign at 1896. She spent $654.38 million of her personal funds to support McKinley's campaign. McKinley won the election. To show his gratitude, McKinley helped Hannah become a senator. Hannah's bronze bust is a major feature of the lobby of this building.

The architect of this building is Charles A. Pratt. It was built from 19 19 to 1922, with a cost of $5 million. It occupies the land where Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church is located at the corner of East 14 Street and Euclid Avenue. The unique interior feature of the building is a semi-circular hall with two street entrances and stylized gold and silver decorative elements. The dining room on the first floor of this building adopts beautiful Pompeii style, and the rest is used for office. It is said that this building contains all kinds of commercial activities needed to build and maintain a city.

Hannah's architecture in the 1920s shows that Cleveland has its own Broadway version. The building opened around the same time that the Theatre Square Studio began to operate, and its restaurant served jazz-era theater audiences and nightlife explorers. Hannah Tower not only serves the emerging entertainment industry, but also is the pillar of business. Shortly after its opening, its elevator utilization rate ranked second in Cleveland. When the city counted, 8223 people used its elevators a day.

The 1930s was a difficult period, and the building lost half its value and most of its uses. The average vacancy rates of office buildings in China before and during the Great Depression were18% in 926, 1929 12%,120% in 932 and128% in 934, respectively. Hannah's situation is so bad that the owners intend to turn the building into a warehouse before reconsidering. Hanna Construction Company also reduced the rent of Cleveland Railway Company from123,000 dollars in 1930 to108,000 dollars to encourage the company to continue to be a lessee. But by the end of 1938 and the second half of 1938, the vacancy rate began to drop to 1 1.4%, and the situation began to stabilize. Therefore, although Hannah's vacancy rate rose in the early 1930s, by the end of 1930s, the vacancy rate had dropped to 65,438+00% slightly higher than the national average. T, 1939, W.Grogan became the manager of this building and later became its owner.

Compared with the holding mode in the 1930s, there was a new improvement in the 1940s. Hanna Tower got 65,438+00 brand-new elevators, which cost 600,000 US dollars and took 65,438+08 months to install. The new elevator symbolizes new confidence in economic development and growth. By 195 1, the occupancy rate of Hannah Hotel reached the highest point, reaching 98%, making it the most prosperous year since the hotel opened. In addition, T.W. grogan bought the building at 1958 for $5 million and became its owner. In the 1960s and 1970s,

It has witnessed that Hanna architecture has become an unofficial tourist capital in this area. This is due to the rise of commercial jet, which is much faster than prop-driven commercial jet, so it quickly became popular. In the early 1960s, T.W.Grogan Company adopted the slogan "Come to Hannah Tower and go anywhere in the world". By 1967, the total office space of tourism-related companies is 25,000 square feet, while the total area is 247,000 square feet, which means that these companies lease the largest office space among all related enterprises. By the end of this decade, Vermont has 65,438+05 airlines, 4 travel agencies, 2 car rental companies, 65,438+0 shipping companies and even a tourist information center.

Although the status of downtown Cleveland as a commercial center began to decline, Hannah Hotel still enjoyed thoughtful ownership. 1980, the building was transformed into the original lighting equipment, which should be available.