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Life and Casualty Tower

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Type
  
Office

Roof
  
410 feet (120 m)

Architect
  
Edwin Keeble

Floors
  
30

Antenna spire
  
152 m

Completed
  
1957

Floor count
  
30

Height
  
125 m, 152 m to tip

Opened
  
1957

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Location
  
401 Church Street Nashville, Tennessee United States

Similar
  
The Pinnacle at Symphon, Fifth Third Center, William R Snodgrass Tennesse, AT&T Building, One Nashville Place

The Life & Casualty Tower (also known as the L & C Tower) is a skyscraper in Nashville, Tennessee located at 401 Church Street. It stands 152.5 meters (409 ft) and has 30 floors. It was designed by Edwin Keeble, with structural engineering made by Ross Bryan Associates, and was finished in 1957. It was Nashville's first skyscraper and the tallest in Tennessee until 1965, when 100 North Main Street in Memphis surpassed it.

Map of Life %26 Casualty Tower, Nashville, TN 37219, USA

Exterior materials are limestone, granite, and bright green glass windows. Intersecting curves and angles at the building's base focus attention on the entrance, which angles out to the corner of Church Street and 4th Avenue.

In the building's early days, the L&C sign at its apex functioned as a weather beacon, changing color to indicate the weather forecast.

References

Life & Casualty Tower Wikipedia