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Here are some postcard views of the Terminal Tower - for seventy years Cleveland's enduring landmark. The first one dates from the early 1920s when the idea of a 52-story tower to cap the mammoth Cleveland Union Terminal project had not yet been proposed by the Van Sweringen brothers. For more on the earlier railroad passenger stations and the union terminals - actual and proposed - in Cleveland, visit the UNION TERMINALS page.
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The next six images are various views of the Terminal Tower, which
was to Cleveland's photographers what the Eiffel Tower was to
Parisian painters. Note the cut-away view of the station levels
below the level of Public Square in first image.
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Here's a shot of the entrance to the Cleveland Union Terminal,
at the base of the Terminal Tower. The diagonal nature of the
entrance cuts across the publicly-owned corner of the square,
necessitating that the entrance portico be open for citizen access
at all times. With the C.U.T.'s demise, this is now the entrance
to the Tower City shopping mall developed in its place. For a
view of this entrance under construction, visit the Rosenberg Drawings
page.
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Here's a romanticized vision of the Cuyahoga River with the Terminal Tower as backdrop. The tower marked the center of the city for two generations of Clevelanders, only in recent decades having any other "skyscrapers" joining it downtown.
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Last updated October 27, 1996