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Tower on the Maumee

Year
1968
Style
International Style
City
Toledo, OH
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Tower on the Maumee, formerly the Fiberglas Tower, is a 400-foot International Style skyscraper at 200 North Saint Clair Street in Toledo, built in 1969 as the world headquarters of Owens-Corning Fiberglas Company. Owens-Corning occupied the tower for 27 years before moving elsewhere downtown in 1996, after which the building sat vacant until October 2018. The Eyde Company renamed it Tower on the Maumee in October 2016 and set about converting the top floors into luxury apartments while renovating the lower-floor commercial office space. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 under the name "Riverview."

the building

Rising on the Fort Meigs site. The tower's downtown site had been occupied by the Fort Meigs Hotel, a 10-story building constructed in 1927; the project's developer, Riverview One Corp., expected construction of the new tower to cost between $12 million and $18 million.

the style

Completed in 1969, the tower is an example of the International Style, the modernist idiom that defined its era's corporate skyscrapers and shaped its exterior massing and curtain wall.

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the architect

The tower was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz of New York City together with Richards, Bauer & Moorhead of Toledo; the general contractor was Turner Construction of New York.

significance

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 under the name "Riverview." It stood vacant from 1996 until October 2018, when redevelopment under the Eyde Company converted its upper floors to luxury apartments.

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