Photos: A Tour of the Near-Vacant Union Trust Building Before Renovation Starts This Fall
The 925 Building is the most underutilized historic building in the state of Ohio.
That sentence best summarizes the long-running interest developer Tom Mignona, the vice president of the Millennia Co., has in what's now called The Centennial. In early April, Mignona hyped up the soon-to-start makeover of the former Union Trust headquarters/Huntington Building. The build, slated to begin this fall, will be tremendously difficult and lengthy, with a price-tag of around $500 million.
Besides a dire activation of the East 9th-Euclid Ave. intersection's final vacant building, there will be a combined 584 units of market-rate and "workforce" housing, an upscale restaurant, a luxury hotel, an auto museum, a cocktail lounge-situated-in-a-bank-vault (you get the idea).
Millennia took Scene on a tour of the first three floors, and the 21st floor ballroom, to get a taste of what could be rejuvenated come 2027. And what grandeur once existed and might again.
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The south section of 925's first floor will most likely become The Centennial's main restaurant, in a style akin to the Marble Room further down Euclid Avenue.
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The northernmost part of the atrium is slated to become a historical car museum.
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925's Corinthian columns extend to highlight one of the murals by Jules Guerin, an artist who also painted similar murals at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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The building's northern lobby, which runs parallel to Chester Avenue, extends 304 feet. It was also once home to Steamship Row, a conglomeration of travel agencies known to book a huge percentage of Clevelaners' overseas travels.
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Original office decals are relics of the lobby's past usage.
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The lobby's Corinthian columns, designed by a Chicago-based architectural group called Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, will be restored in the coming renovation.
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A room in the Executive area of 925 on the building's third floor, which will be a part of The Centennial's luxury hotel.
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Though 925 is for the most part vacant, save for Huntington Bank on its first floor, its chief of security has witnessed a handful of attempted break-ins.
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The main hall of 925's Executive Suite.
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An entrance to the former Executive Suite, which will most likely become a check-in area for the future hotel.
