Article by Victoria Birch


Structure

The Starret Brothers were hired to build the structure, because of their past skyscraper construction experience in New York. The building site was over the former Butler Exchange, located at 55 Exchange Place on Kennedy Plaza. It is a twenty-six story steel frame building enclosed by masonry. The Starret Brothers drilled 3,300 concrete filled steel piles 50 feet into the ground to stabilize the structure. Externally, it is faced with Indiana Limestone with a Deer Island granite base.

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