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First Purpose Quiz

Started by Towntalk, January 15, 2011, 11:15:21 AM

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#4
1915
Youngstown, O.—The Realty Trust Co. has commissioned Knox & Elliott Co., architects, Cleveland, to prepare plans for a store, theater (Strand) and hotel building to be erected on site of old Tod House.

FOR RENT—In Youngstown, Ohio, 1,500 seat house to be built in the best possible location with all the latest improvements. Would not this be an addition to your chain? Write or wire for further details. The Realty Trust Co., Youngstown, Ohio. (Could this have been the Liberty Theater?)



iwasthere

towntalk the tellers booths were still there when the Bean Counter was open for business. i do not know if the tv station wytv ripped them out when they turned that into a television station.

Towntalk

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It was a bank building, the building that took its name from the bank that occupied it. The bank was the Realty Trust Co. and the official name of the building was The Realty Trust Building.


Towntalk

We are all familiar with this building obviously, but do we know what its original use was besides being an office building?