The Nicholas Building (Toledo, Ohio)

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.

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

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.