The Western Reserve Building, situated at the triangular and
sloped conjunction of West 9th Street and West 10th Street at
Superior Avenue West, is one of Cleveland's finest tall office
buildings of the Chicago School style. It displays its prominence
at the western end of the Detroit-Superior Bridge, high above the
Cuyahoga River and Flats below.
Completed in 1892, the eight-story office building was designed
by famed Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham, as one of his several
building commissions within the growing city in the 1890s. The
building was designed and constructed for Samuel Mather, a
prominent Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic
Places in 1973.
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