Tower East

Tower East
Tower East
	View from northwest
	Interactive map of the Tower East area
General information
Status	Completed
Type	office
Location	20600 Chagrin Boulevard, Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States
Coordinates	41°27′50″N 81°32′4″W / 41.46389°N 81.53444°W
Estimated completion	1969
Height
Roof	160 feet (49 m)
Technical details
Floor count	12
Floor area	173,087 square feet (16,080.3 m2)
Design and construction
Architects	The Architects' Collaborative, Walter Gropius
Other information
Parking	600 covered spaces, 55 surface spaces

Tower East is a high-rise office building in Shaker Heights, Ohio. At 160 feet (49 m), it was the tallest building in the city until 2024.^[2] Tower East was the last building in the United States designed by architect Walter Gropius. Gropius designed this building during his tenure with The Architect's Collaborative (TAC).^[3]

BGK Equities of Santa Fe, New Mexico, purchased the building for $12.68 million in 2000.^[4] In 2015, it was sold to E2G, an affiliate of the Equity Engineering Group, Inc.^[5]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "20600 Chagrin Boulevard" (PDF). playhousesquarerealestate.com. Playhouse Square Real Estate Services. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
^ Jewell, Thomas. "Shaker's Van Aken District completes Phase II with grand opening of Raye residential towers". cleveland.com. cleveland.com. Retrieved January 28, 2026.
^ "Tower East". nps.gov. National Park Service. Archived from the original on May 26, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2018.
^ Bullard, Stan (May 8, 2000). "BGK adds Tower East to holdings". Crain's Cleveland Business. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
^ Jarboe, Michelle (November 13, 2015). "Tower East, tallest building in Shaker Heights, sells to Equity Engineering". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. Retrieved April 25, 2017 – via cleveland.com.
^ "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/17/14 Through 2/22/14" (PDF). nps.gov. National Park Service. Retrieved February 28, 2014.

External links

"Emporis building ID tower-east-shaker-heights-oh-usa". Emporis. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020.

[brochure-1] "20600 Chagrin Boulevard" (PDF). playhousesquarerealestate.com. Playhouse Square Real Estate Services. Retrieved April 25, 2017.

[2] Jewell, Thomas. "Shaker's Van Aken District completes Phase II with grand opening of Raye residential towers". cleveland.com. cleveland.com. Retrieved January 28, 2026.

[3] "Tower East". nps.gov. National Park Service. Archived from the original on May 26, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2018.

[4] Bullard, Stan (May 8, 2000). "BGK adds Tower East to holdings". Crain's Cleveland Business. Retrieved July 14, 2010.

[5] Jarboe, Michelle (November 13, 2015). "Tower East, tallest building in Shaker Heights, sells to Equity Engineering". The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, Ohio. Retrieved April 25, 2017 – via cleveland.com.

[6] "Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/17/14 Through 2/22/14" (PDF). nps.gov. National Park Service. Retrieved February 28, 2014.

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Walter Gropius
Buildings and structures	Fagus Factory (1911–1913) (with Adolf Meyer) Bauhaus Dessau (1925–1926) Kurt Weill Centre (1925–1926) Monument to the March Dead (1922, destroyed, 1936; reconstructed, 1947) (with Fred Forbát) 66 Old Church Street, Chelsea (1935–1936) (with Maxwell Fry) Gropius House (1938) Josephine M. Hagerty House (1938) Impington Village College (1938–1939) (with Maxwell Fry) Waldenmark (with Marcel Breuer) Alan I W Frank House (1939–1940) (with Marcel Breuer) Aluminum City Terrace (completion, 1942) (with Marcel Breuer) Walter-Gropius-Haus (Berlin) (1957) (with The Architects Collaborative and Wils Ebert) Michael Reese Hospital (original plan for 8 buildings, 1946–1959; demolished 2009-2013) University of Baghdad (1957–1960) Gropiusstadt (buildings complex, completion, 1960) Embassy of the United States, Athens (1960–1961) MetLife Building (1959–1963) (with Richard Roth and Pietro Belluschi) John F. Kennedy Federal Building (1963–1966) (with The Architects Collaborative and Samuel Glaser) Tower East (completion, 1969) Huntington Museum of Art (enlargement project, 1968–1970, with The Architects Collaborative) Porto Carras (original project, 1973–1980)
Other buildings (supporting work)	Großsiedlung Siemensstadt (1929–1931) (co-authorship with six architects) Peter Thacher Junior High School (main authorship by The Architects Collaborative) Wayland High School (1959–1960) (main authorship by Herbert Gallagher and John "Chip" Harkness) Temple Oheb Shalom (completion, 1960) (consulting architect to Sheldon I. Leavitt)
Related	Bauhaus Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau The Back Bay Center (unrealised project, 1953) International Style Werkbund Exhibition (1914) The Architects Collaborative (co-founder) Bride of the Wind (2001 film)
Family and relationships	Martin Gropius (uncle) Alma Mahler (first wife) Manon Gropius (daughter) Ati Gropius Johansen (stepdaughter) Adolf Meyer (collaborator) Maxwell Fry (collaborator) Marcel Breuer (collaborator)