![Entrance to the John P. Robin Civic Building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/John_P._Robin_Civic_Building%2C_2021-04-26%2C_entrance.jpg/600px-John_P._Robin_Civic_Building%2C_2021-04-26%2C_entrance.jpg)
Built in 1907, this small skyscraper (originally the Jones & Laughlin Building) was just barely spared by the Boulevard of the Allies a decade and a half later. It was designed by the always-tasteful MacClure & Spahr in the restrained Gothic style popular in the early twentieth century.
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Fun Fact: The building was heightened by four floors at some point. I’ll try to find the article where I learned that.
Might have been this one.