First Merit Tower

Central Depositors Bank

106 South Main Street, Akron, OH

Construction Began: 1929

Building Completed: 1931

Opened: July 23, 1931

Architect: Walker & Weeks

Building Contractor: Carmichael Construction

Cost: $2,570,000

Design: Art Deco

Formal opening of the Central Depositor - Akron Topics 1931	Building the Tower - Karl Grismer
The Skyscraper - Akron Topics 1931	Restoration: Western Construction Group
Cascade Plaza

Central Depositors or the First Central Trust Building has remained the tallest building in the city since its completion. It rises 27-stories to a height a 330 feet. The tower was built on the former site of the Hamilton Building.

Brief Facts of Central Depositors Building

Ground area—107 feel on Main and Howard Sheet's, 205 feel on Mill Street.

Height-- 320 feet above the sidewalk on Main Street—28 stories. Nine stories on Howard Street.

Floor area--240,000 square /eel. Cubic contents--3,500,000 feet.

There are—540 feel of show windows, 1,020 windows in all, 1,250 doors.

Corridors aggregate three-fourths of a mile.

Local elevators give service to the twelfth floor; express elevators to floors above. Their speed is 800 feet per minute.

Each of two entrance doors to the bank vaults weighs 20 tons. An electric protective system sets off an alarm if door handles are ever so slightly moved after banking hours.