| Keith Building | |
|---|---|
 The Keith Building | |
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| Alternative names | B.F. Keith Theatre Building |
| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices Theatre |
| Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
| Location | 1621 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio |
| Coordinates | 41°30′05″N 81°40′49″W / 41.501286°N 81.680284°W |
| Completed | 1922 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 83 m (272 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 22 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Rapp & Rapp |
| References | |
| [1][2][3] | |
The Keith Building is a skyscraper in downtown Cleveland, Ohio's Playhouse Square theater district. The Keith is 272 feet tall and 21 stories, and houses the Palace Theater, a former flagship theater of the Keith vaudeville circuit.[4] As of 2017, the renovated building is in use as an office tower.[5]
At the time of its construction in 1922, the Keith was the tallest building in Cleveland,[6] and currently stands as the 25th-tallest. It is also the tallest performing arts-related building in Ohio. From 1922 through the mid-1950s,[citation needed] the Keith also had a multi-story electric sign on its roof, claimed to be the largest electric sign in the world at the time of its construction.[7][8]
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- ^ "Palace Theater". Cleveland Historical. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
- ^ "Sensational places, historic spaces" (PDF). Retrieved on 2015-10-12
- ^ Parade Studios (1945). "Keith Building in 1945 (photograph)". csuohio.edu. Cleveland Memory Project. Retrieved 2017-03-13.