Everything about Chase Tower Indianapolis totally explained
|roof= 700 ft (214 m)
|top_floor= 688 ft (211 m)
|antenna_spire= 830 ft (253 m)
|floor_count= 48
|floor_area= 905,158 sq ft (84,092 m²)
|elevator_count= 27
|architect=
Stubbins Associates
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Opened in
1990 near
Monument Circle in
Indianapolis, the
Chase Tower (formerly known as the
Bank One Tower and originally conceived as
American Fletcher Tower) is the tallest
skyscraper in
Indiana, and also the tallest in the
Midwest outside of
Chicago and
Cleveland. It surpassed the AUL Tower (now
OneAmerica Tower) in Indianapolis as the tallest building in Indiana. The building's twin spires pierce 829
feet (252.7
m) into the Hoosier skyline, while the 48 floors of office and retail space below peak at the 700 feet (214 m) roof. It is the headquarters for
Chase's (formerly
Bank One's) Indiana operations. It is worth noting that while the building has two spires of equal height, only one of them is actually functional as a transmission antenna. The other mast is merely an architectural decoration. The Chase Tower is the 36th
tallest building in the United States and 115th
tallest in the world.
The tower's step pyramidal cap reflects the design of the Indiana War Memorial, three blocks due north. The War Memorial, in turn, reflects the descriptions of the original
Mausoleum. Because of the height of this building, its roof was specifically designed to house communications relay equipment, in order to provide additional revenue to the building's owners. Over the past several years, two large banners have occasionally been placed outside of the north and south communication bullpens areas of the roof in support of two of the city's professional sports franchises. These "GO
PACERS" and "GO
COLTS" signs are very highly visible on the tallest structure of the city.
Background and History
The tower was originally conceived in the late
1970s by the late
Frank E. McKinney, Jr., chairman of
American Fletcher Corporation (the
holding company for
American Fletcher National Bank and Trust Company (AFNB), which at the time was Indiana's largest financial institution) to allow for consolidation and expansion of his company's headquarters. Land was slowly being assembled for the building, with several predecessor structures along Ohio Street and Pennsylvania Street being demolished in those years and the early
1980s to clear the way for what McKinney hoped would soon be Indiana's tallest office tower.
Before actual construction of the building could begin, American Fletcher became the first major Indianapolis bank holding company to be sold to an out-of-state financial institution, agreeing in the spring of 1986 to merge with
Ohio's rapidly growing
Banc One Corporation. Upon consummation of that merger, Mr. McKinney became chairman of Banc One's Indiana operations and tower planning picked up momentum. Ground was broken and construction began in 1988 on the newly designated
Bank One Center Tower, which was to be integrated with AFNB's existing headquarters complex on Monument Circle and adjacent Market Street.
This was done mainly to secure the prestigious Monument Circle address for the new tower, which actually rises between Ohio Street and Wabash Street (the east-west alley between Market and Ohio). Thus, the Ohio Street entrance to the tower is actually the complex's back door with a concourse-style passageway on the second level running over Scioto Street (the north-south alley between Pennsylvania and Meridian) to connect the skyscraper (and its attached parking garage along Pennsylvania Street) to the main entrance in the original 1960 American National Bank Building at 111 Monument Circle.
A separate
skywalk across Scioto once connected the Circle Building to the adjacent Fletcher Trust Building at 10 E. Market Street, but that was later removed after the bank moved all operations formerly located in that structure into the new tower. The Fletcher Trust Building itself was subsequently sold and has since been renovated into a
Hilton Garden Inn hotel. Banc One Corporation (later renamed
Bank One Corporation) went through several additional major acquisitions before it was itself bought by
J.P. Morgan Chase in the early 2000s. Upon consummation of that merger, the Indianapolis structure was renamed to become known as the
Chase Tower.
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