The Ideal Building

The Hess-Snyder Company built the city's first eight-story "skyscraper" in 1918 for the Ideal Department Store on the southwest corner of Lincoln Way and First Street, S.E. Ohio Merchants Bank purchased it in 1925 and it remained a bank until 1967.

Cleveland architect Frank R. Walker designed the city's second eight-story building in 1923 for the lot surrounded by Lincoln Way, Erie Street South, Exchange Street, and Diamond Court. For more than a half century it housed the First National Bank on the first floor and offices above.

The Lincoln Professional Building

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