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MODERN LANDMARKS
Times/Union 11/17/69 D&C 12/5/71Times/Union 05/22/69
In the late 1960's the leaders of the Lincoln-Rochester Trust Company proposed building a new headquarters in downtown Rochester
The soaring tower would be the centerpiece of a plan to showcase their commitment to downtown’s future…
Times/Union 05/22/69
CHASE TOWER
“LINCOLN ROCHESTER TRUST TOWER”
Architect - John Graham and Company (Jack Follette, New York Office)
- $18,000,000 : Estimated Cost of Construction - May 26, 1969 : Groundbreaking
- June 8, 1971 : Structural Steel "Topped Off"
- 1973 : Tower Officially Completed
- $26,000,000 : Final Cost of Construction
The chosen site was a 3.9 acre plot at the south-west corner of Main St. and Clinton Ave.
Enos Stone's first house in the area, a log cabin, once occupied this corner of downtown
Rochester
At the time of planning, the site was home to Three Sister's, McFarlin's Clothing, and F.W.
Woolworth stores
Down's Alley, a crossway on the site, was removed and the land was condensed into one
blockTimes/Union 05/22/69
Times/Union 05/22/69
In addition to the tower, the plan included a plaza/shopping concourse and a pedestrian-bridge link to Midtown Plaza
Future plans included additional towers on the site; with the demolition of the Lincoln-Alliance Building of 1926 likely if its Main St. location was desired by a developer for a new building
D&C 09/26/69
One Clinton Square, a Palladian ziggurat with “Chicago-style”
windows, was completed behind Chase Tower on the Broad St. side of the complex in 1990
The Alliance Building was not demolished and retains its prominent position on the
corner of Main and Stone
StructureChase Tower employs a Tube in Tube structural system - popularized in the 1960’s
In this system, a concrete service core is tied to exterior support columns by the floor plates
The Tube in Tube structural system provides a larger useable floor area with few, or no, interior columnsTimes/Union 02/22/71
Chase Tower's design
required only
seven structur
al columns
per side…
…This may be the result of using
a robust floor design of interlocking steel beams as
a stiffening agent
Times/Union 05/1970
Times/Union 06/08/71
The core provides resistance to the
lateral loads on the building, while 24 exterior columns bear
the brunt of the tower's weight
Times/Union 11/17/69D&C 09/26/69
D&C 03/15/84
As a result, Chase Tower’s windows do not suffer from the "mail-slot " effect that is a common drawback of bearing wall design
One half (24) of the exterior columns do not function as structural supports
However, they do perform other functions
They provide scale to the façade and enhance the sculptural effect of the flaring and radiating shape of the tower
These “decorative” columns carry the tower’s utility lines to each floor
The tower contained an automated "Telelift" system of
self-propelled carts
The carts ran along a system of tracks that were installed in the
tower's service core
The system was used to facilitate the inter-office
correspondence of the bank
D&C 05/05/72
14,000 sq.ft. Per-Floor Average
396,000 sq.ft. Rentable Space
1,200 Windows
27 Floors 392' Height to Roof 398' Structural Height (top of exterior columns)
1" Thickness of Original Carrara Marble Panels
1.5" Specified Panel Thickness
$18,000,000 Cost to Replace 17,000 Panels of Warping Marble with Panels of Enamel-Coated Aluminum (1984)
D&C c.1983
1993 - Name Changed from First Lincoln Tower
to Chase Tower
2006 - Chase Renovates Tower Cost: $30,000,000
Statistics: 1967-2006 Rochester Times Union /Democrat and
Chronicle
This presentation and all illustrationsherein not otherwise credited copyright © 2007, 2008 by Daniel J. Palmer