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The Tribune Tower at night, viewed from the Oakland City Center. The Tribune Tower is a 305-ft. (93 m), 22-story building located in downtown Oakland, California.Built in 1906, tower erected in 1923, the 89,251 sq.-ft. (8,291 sq.-m.) building was the tallest building in Oakland constructed in the 1920s.
The Tribune Tower was the headquarters of the Oakland Tribune from 1924 until 2007. After five terms in the United States House of Representatives, Joseph R. Knowland (1873–1966) purchased the Oakland Tribune from Dargie's widow, Hermina Peralta Dargie.
A nine-story section was later added to the same building. [3] It remained the tallest building in the city until 1914, when the Oakland City Hall, at 320 feet (98 m), became the tallest. [4] At the time it was built, the City Hall was the first high-rise government building in the United States and the tallest building west of the Mississippi ...
Downtown Oakland from Lake Merritt Aerial view of Downtown Oakland and Lake Merritt Lionel J. Wilson/Broadway Building at 150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Detail of the Romanesque Revival Tribune Tower. The building serves as a quintessential Oakland landmark, timepiece, and navigation aid, as its unique green roof and massive red neon sign and clock ...
Tribune Tower (Oakland) Trinity Church (Oakland, California) ... YWCA Building (Oakland, California) This page was last edited on 16 February 2024, at 16:00 (UTC). ...
Lincoln Square (Oakland Square) 10th St., 11th St., Harrison St., Alice St. December 20, 1983 81 Southern Pacific Railroad Station: 16th and Wood Streets January 31, 1984 82 1100 Broadway Building: 1100 Broadway January 31, 1984 Key System Building 83 Church of St. James the Apostle & Parish Hall 1540 12th Avenue May 29, 1984 84
The Tribune Tower is a 463-foot-tall (141 m), 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.The early 1920s international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-century architecture. [1]
In 1924, the Tribune Tower was completed; in 1976, it was restored and declared an Oakland landmark. The 1920s were economic boom years in the United States as a whole, and in California in particular.