Hartford Building (Dallas)
| Hartford Building | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Completed |
| Type | Office |
| Location | 400 N St. Paul Street Dallas, Texas (USA) |
| Coordinates | 32°47′03″N 96°47′52″W / 32.784222°N 96.797737°W |
| Opening | January 25, 1960 |
| Management | Good Signature Management, L.L.C. |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 14 |
| Floor area | 166,000 sq ft (15,400 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Developer | Trammell Crow |
| Website | |
| www.goodsignature.com | |
The Hartford Building is a mid-rise skyscraper located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) and adjacent to DART's St. Paul Station.
History
The $5 million office building, built during a time of large insurance growth in Dallas, was constructed to serve as the southwestern regional home office for the Hartford Fire Insurance Group.[1] It was developed by Trammell Crow and Eugene Locke and opened in 1960.[2] In separate incidents during construction in 1959, a 20-foot (6.1 m) steel beam and a brick fell to street level from upper floors. The beam pierced a truck and was embedded into the pavement and the brick bounced off a car below; amazingly, no one was injured.[3] The building's 400 space Bryan Street Garage was replaced with a shared-use garage built for the adjacent Patriot Tower in 1981.
The building was sold in 1961, 1967, 1994 and in 2013.[4]
References
- ^ The Dallas Morning News, "Office Unit to be Built by Hartford", February 27, 1958, retrieved January 18, 2010.
- ^ The Dallas Morning News, "Skyline Boosted With Insurance", October 5, 1958, retrieved January 18, 2010
- ^ The Dallas Morning News, "Brick Falls Onto Auto", July 11, 1959. retrieved January 18, 2010
- ^ Steve Brown. "Hartford Building sold for $3 million." The Dallas Morning News 21 November 1994, HOME FINAL, BUSINESS: 1D. NewsBank. Web. 18 January 2010.