Show great brotherhood worthily housed office and bank buildings in cleveland owned by locomotive engineers HE visitor approaching cleveland either by land or water Is invariably impressed by a strikingly beautiful s k scraper tower lug above ev ery other edifice north of the city s public square flank ing it on the east stands nn other office building with glistening white tile walls rising 14 stories above the busa street corner below A few blocks to the south on euclid avenue the fifth altys busiest mart of trade a third skyscraper of 17 stories houses a 11 onerous hank and cares for many tenants besides these three great office and banking buildings representing a combined in vestment of more than in docite why the brotherhood of loco motive engineers Is known and respected by all classes of citizens and why one of its twelve banks the plo neer brotherhood of locomotive an fn co national bank of cleveland now counts resources in ex cess of labors first skyscraper fifteen beirs ago no labor union in cortti america pos sensed a large headquarters office build ing for a number of seals toe late president of this brotherhood arren S stone and I 1 had urged the alon to erect an office building that would not only provide it with space tor our grand office but also bring in a sufficient rental aiom other tenants to defray the carril ng barges on the building william B drenter president of ohp brotherhood of locomotive nn ginders writes the 11 1 1 story brotherhood of locomotive engineers building was author iced bv our 1908 convention and corn plated two icara later in ten years the rents from this building had paid off every cent of the investment and left us a skyscraper which had not cost a member of this atlon a penny banks rapid growth on v ember 1 1920 the B of L K cooperative co operative bank of cleveland opened for business in what had formell for merl been a saloon on a cor ner opposite the headquarters office structure growing at the record rite r ite of a month inside of two vears the institution had to find larger quarters for at least a part of its bus nisi hie B of L E building association a corporation which holds the title to all of our buildings was able to obtain H beautiful 17 story bank edifice on avenue in the heart of cleveland s shopping district at a fraction of its real value the building had been constructed only six vears previously to date a large national bank later soll dated con with one of the local trust companies the B of L 11 office occupies four floor this hand some structure including a sub basement containing some of the alne t and best protected bank vaults in the ti of cleveland the remainder of t building Is leased to a high clasi tenants f architectural masterpiece S is some months ago the main R 0 E co operative national bank roi i into one of the finest and largest bai r ing homes jn alie country a 23 sti steel marble and tile skyscraper placing the dingy converted ealo where the bank first began ita li ness this building stands unit among masterpieces of comma L architecture both its exterior and interior w Is derived from a magi cent snowflake design devised by I 1 architect john H elleott the ba ing contains the roost modem ey ment throughout including the fai domce building power plant yet stalled in any commercial the country this plant provides I 1 heat and for both the t building and the B of L E headid building across the street which it Is connected by an uni ground tunnel the top story of the structure 1 roof garden commanding a rem arkil view of lake erie and the envin of cleveland |