See the City - City Lunch Series #1 Traditional Cache
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See the City - City Lunch Series #1
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#1 in a series of Caches designed to be done on the lunch hours of those working in downtown Cincinnati (Of course all are welcome to find). You can walk across the city (or drive) to find each of these cahces. These caches tend to be hidden in high traffic areas, please use stealth when searching.
This is by far the coolest hide of the series and one of the best in the Cincinnati area. If your in from out of town and can only do a limited number of caches, this should be one of them.
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This Cache is only available:
Monday – Thursday: 9AM - 5:30PM
Friday: 9AM – 6PM
Saturday – Sunday: 10AM – 7 PM
The cache is located in a public area of the building.
This Cache was placed with the permission of Dan Boyle, Senior Property Manager
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Biography of Carew Tower: King of the Queen City
The Carew Tower was conceptualized by Walter Ahlschlager of Chicago, with Delano and Aldrich as associate architects. Initially, the project was criticized because Cincinnati was judges as to small and too far “west” for the imposing structure. However, the farsighted John J. Emery approved the commencement of the monumental undertaking. The Tower is a brick and steel structure erected on what is known as a floating base, which allows the building to sway as much as one and one half inches at the top, but is imperceptible to viewers on the observation deck.
Construction began on January 8, 1930 and initially consisted of pouring the concrete base. This base was poured in only 30 hours, with 400 workmen assisting. Steel construction began on February 10, 1930. One thousand men worked round the clock in an attempt to build the colossus in record time. An ironworkers strike in the spring slowed construction for 49 days; however, on July 7, 1930 the American Flag was raised on the top of the Tower, thus setting a new world’s record that remains unchallenged: 15,000 tons of steel for the framework of the building had been raised in only 62 days.
The building consists of two separate, but connecting units that house the 31-floor Hilton Netherland Plaza and the 49 story Carew Tower office complex, comprising 1,383,000 gross square feet with 4,000,000 bricks, 5,000 doors and 8,000 windows. The first and second floors were refurbished to reflect the original grandeur of their art deco history.
The Carew Tower currently has 23 elevators that shuttle visitors and employees up its 574feet at the amazing rate of only 32 seconds. The Carew tower was the first office building in downtown Cincinnati to have unmanned elevators operated by push button.
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