Month: September 2013

Cuyahoga County Administration Building

The ironwork is now complete and soon the skin will begin to go up. The trades are hard at work on the lower floors, building block walls, and duct work is beginning to appear in the basement.

The site is located at the former site of AmeriTrust’s P&H Building, south of the historic Cleveland Trust Rotunda and the former 29-story AmeriTrust Office Tower, at the intersection of Prospect/Huron and East 9th Street. The building once housed the massive data-processing center and Bond and Stock Administration for the bank’s Corporate Trust Division. The 8-story County Administration Building, replacing the 5-story P&H Buildings, is planned to be completed in July, 2014, to be joined in the fall of 2014 by Heinen’s, the first full-service grocery store in downtown Cleveland, to locate on the first and second floors of the Rotunda, and the first floor of the 1010 Euclid Building.

Topping-Off Ceremony - November 18, 2013
Topping-Off Ceremony – November 18, 2013
Ready to be Topped Off - November 18, 2013
Ready to be Topped Off – November 18, 2013
November 11, 2013
Ironwork Nearing Completion – November 11, 2013
Progress Inside - November 11, 2013
Progress Inside – November 11, 2013
November 1, 2013
November 1, 2013
October 28, 2013
Delivering Iron to the Sixth Floor – October 28, 2013
October 17, 2013
Fourth Floor – October 17, 2013
Progress Continues,
Ironwork Continues – October 3, 2013
Iron Rising from the Excavated Site - September 9, 2013
Iron Rising from the Excavated Site – September 9, 2013
Iron Rising from the Excavated Site - September 9, 2013
Iron Rising from the Excavated Site – September 9, 2013
Site Preparation - June 12, 2013
Site Preparation – June 12, 2013
Demolition Continues - April 22, 2013
Demolition Continues – April 22, 2013
Demolition Begins - April 9, 2013
Demolition Begins – April 9, 2013
A Blast of an Air Horn by County Executive Ed FitzGerald Signals Beginning of Demolition - April 9, 2013
A Blast of an Air Horn by County Executive Ed FitzGerald Signals Beginning of Demolition – April 9, 2013
Inside the P&H Building, Bond and Stock Administration, Corporate Trust Division - February 12, 2013
Inside the P&H Buildings, Bond and Stock Administration, Corporate Trust Division – February 12, 2013
Inside the P&H Building, Data-Processing Department - February 12, 2013
Inside the P&H Buildings, Data-Processing Center – February 12, 2013
Inside the P&H Building, Data-Processing Department - February 12, 2013
Inside the P&H Buildings, Data-Processing Center – February 12, 2013
Inside P&H Building - Coins were delivered by armored trucks and counted before being stored in vault - February 12, 2013
Inside P&H Buildings – Coins were delivered by armored trucks and counted before being moved to the vault – February 12, 2013

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About My New Profile Photo

_MG_0119_HDRBWSince changing my LinkedIn profile photo, several people have said, “That is an interesting photograph, but what is it?” The answer is that this is the stained glass dome 85 feet above the banking floor of the Cleveland Trust Rotunda.

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A closer view reveals more of the incredible detail. . .

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. . .  as does an even closer view! To take a trip under the dome, click here.

Just below the Tiffany-style dome of Cleveland’s historic Cleveland Trust Rotunda, between the graceful columns, is a series of beautiful murals painted by Francis Davis Millet, who died at age 65 in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. To see the murals and for information on each of them, click here. Or, for photographs and details of the historic building, click here.