Skyscrapers

What is a skyscraper?

A skyscraper is a very tall building that has an iron or steel frame inside that supports its floors and walls. Before builders figured out how to make steel frames, stone or brick walls had to bear the weight of structures. If the walls were built too high the building would collapse from all the weight.

The Nasby Building was Toledo’s first

skyscraper.

This is what it looks like today.

One SeaGate, the tallest building in

Toledo, is the location of Fifth-

Third Bank's Northwest Ohio

headquarters.

Fiberglass Tower built

in 1969 is the second

tallest building

downtown.

The PNC Bank Building is a Limestone-faced steel-frame skyscraper in the Art Deco style. It is the third tallest building in downtown Toledo, Ohio

This is the front of the building.

The Disalle Government Building is the 4th tallest in Toledo.

Riverfront Apartment

Building is the 5th tallest

building in Toledo.

The old St. Anthony’s Church is still the 6th tallest building in Toledo.

The Spitzer Building

was Toledo's

first steel-framed

skyscraper. It was built

in 1896.It is the 7th

tallest building.

The Commodore Perry Apartment building is the 8th tallest building in

Toledo.

The Pilkington Building is

the 9th tallest building in

the city.

University Hall on the campus of UT is the 10th tallest building in Toledo, Ohio.