The Nasby Building is a tall high-rise building located at 605 Madison Avenue in
Downtown Toledo
Downtown Toledo is the central business district of Toledo, Ohio. Both the Warehouse District and the area surrounding the Huntington Center have been areas of recent growth.
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It stood as Toledo's tallest building for 11 years, from its completion in 1895 until the completion of the
Nicholas Building in 1906.
History
The eight-story structure was constructed between 1891 and 1895 by the real estate man Horace Walbridge at the corner of Madison Avenue and Huron Street in Toledo's business center.
[
] The building was designed by
Edward Fallis, a prominent Toledo architect, who maintained his offices in the building from 1894 until his death in 1927.
The design incorporated an eight-story office block which recalled the
Chicago School of design with a taller
Renaissance
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style tower located nearest the corner of Madison and Huron. The tower section of the building was said to be modeled after the
Giralda
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] in
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Spain
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in honor of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
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The building was named the Nasby Building in 1895. The tower section included an ornate cupola which reached an architectural height of
above the streets. The cupola was removed in the 1930s, which reduced the architectural height to .
In the 1960s, the Nasby Building and the adjacent Wayne Building were covered with a facade of glass and enameled asbestos panels to give the appearance of a single structure.
[
][
] The four-story Wayne Building, was built as a bank in 1924 and contains a large and ornate bank lobby. The resurfaced structures were renamed the Madison Building.
File:PHOSTINT OHIO (15925313401).jpg, approximately 1900s
File:320 Madison Ave - DPLA - ca17571aaa726253fbeadae74f7818b6 (page 1).jpg, 1908
File:Nasby Building, Toledo, Ohio - DPLA - 48c78435fa49bad2074cf74b2a7d3681 (page 1).jpg, 1900s
File:Block Card 617 Madison Avenue - DPLA - 0164acf51d78d476921557a30685a696.jpg, 1965
See also
*
List of tallest buildings in Toledo, Ohio
References
External links
*
Toledo Blade
''The Blade'', also known as the ''Toledo Blade'', is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications. The newspaper was first published on December 19, 1835.
Overview
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Madison Building circa 1999.
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Buildings and structures in Toledo, Ohio
Office buildings completed in 1895
Chicago school architecture in Ohio