The Nicholas Building (Toledo, Ohio)

Nicholas Building
Nicholas Building in 2022
General information
Type	office
Location	608 Madison Avenue, Toledo, Ohio
Coordinates	41.653°N 83.537°W / 41.653; -83.537
Completed	1906
Height
Architectural	250 ft (76 m)
Technical details
Floor count	17

The Nicholas Building is a 250 ft (76 m)[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] 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.

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  View from the Nicholas Building, undated
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  Nicholas Building circa 1910

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Toledo, Ohio

References

1. "Nicholas Building - The Skyscraper Center". skyscrapercenter.com. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. 26 March 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
2. Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1890-1914 By William D. Speck - Nicholas Building. Arcadia Publishing. 2002. ISBN 9780738519784. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
3. "Memoirs of Lucas County and the City of Toledo... Volume 2 - Bacon". Western Historical Association. 1910. Retrieved 1 May 2017.