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}} The Cleveland Trust Company is a historic 1907-built 85 foot tall dominating edifice that sits at the prominent Cleveland intersection of East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland's Nine-Twelve District.〔Burdick, R.L. & Baughman, M. L. (2010). ''Remembering Cleveland''. Turner Publishing:Nashville.〕 Its glass enclosed rotunda is its most striking feature in that it was designed by one, Louis Comfort Tiffany and his firm in New York.〔Whelan, N. (1989). ''Cleveland: Shaping the Vision''. Windsor:Chatsworth, California.〕 The building also features multilevel columns and ornate pediment that depicts the figures of commerce and finance that attest to the march of progress designed by Karl Bitter.〔Tassel, D. D. & Garbowski, J. J. (1987). ''The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History''. Indiana University Press:Bloomington, Indiana.〕 The Trust Building is Renaissance in form and was designed by George B. Post.〔http://clevelandcentennial.blogspot.com/2010/12/cleveland-trust-company.html ''Cleveland Trust Company'' Retrieved on 2015-09-28〕 The bank building still stands as a link between Cleveland, Post and Francis David Millet who created several murals for the bank's headquarters and died on board the Titanic in 1912.〔Whitley, M. A. (2003). ''Voyage, the quarterly journal of the Titanic International Society'' 47, 3-8.〕 The Trust Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.〔http://www.nps.gov/nr/research/ ''Spreadsheet of NRHP list'' Retrieved on 2015-09-28 〕 The building is connected to the Swetland Building and The 9 Cleveland. ==Cleveland Trust and Cleveland Banking== The Cleveland Trust Company was not simply a bank. For this reason, the Cleveland Trust bank board of directors was determined to find someone who would prove that the company provided vital links to culture and society in the city of Cleveland. Cleveland Trust was founded in 1894 and was one of the first banks in the United States to adopt the European and Canadian model of ''branch locations''.〔http://ech.cwru.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=B2 ''Banking'' Retrieved on 2015-09-26〕 This meant that for the first time people did not have to travel literally sometimes miles to the bank to transact business and could instead rely on having a ''local'' branch in their neighborhood. Cleveland Trust took great strides in investing in the future and showed as much by hiring former World's Columbian Exposition architect George B. Post who had created the Manufactures and Liberal Arts building for that World's Fair in Chicago.〔http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1386.html ''World's Columbian Exposition'' Retrieved on 2015-09-26〕 Post was a giant in the architectural world and embodied the company's goal of furthering the mark of their brand on the banking and finance world. The company wanted a transformative building that would speak to the reputation that they had as a bank, a company and a Cleveland business engine. With this in mind, construction commenced in 1905 at Erie Street (East 9th) and Euclid Avenue and was completed in 1907.〔http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi0299.xml;chunk.id=bioghist_1;brand=default ''History of Ameritrust Corporation'' Retrieved on 2015-09-28〕 The eleganceness of the building and its fine detailing caught the banking world by storm, these unique touches included sophisticated office spaces and spacious teller windows that wrapped around the rotunda.〔Karberg R. E. & Toman, J. A. (2002). ''Euclid Avenue: Cleveland's Sophisticated Lady: 1920-1970''. Cleveland Landmark Press:Cleveland, Ohio. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Cleveland Trust Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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