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It was designed by Richards, McCarty and Bulford and was built in 1927. It served as the local headquarters for the Knights of Columbus . The Roman Catholic order the Salesian Society acquired the building in 1968, and it became known as the Salesian Boys and Girls Club.
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- 80 S. Sixth St., 306 E. State St., Columbus, Ohio
1969 built One Columbus Plaza: New Haven, Connecticut: Headquarters of the Knights of Columbus. Also known as the Knights of Columbus Tower, the building was designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates and finished in 1969.
Also known as the Knights of Columbus Tower or The Knights' Tower, the building was designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates and finished in 1969. This 23-story modern style reinforced concrete building, at 320 feet (98 meters) tall, is the third-tallest building in the city's skyline.
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Knights of Columbus, is a Roman Catholic philanthropic organization that also has a great activity in the insurance business. The organization commissioned the study of architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo to design and build the building that would be their headquarters in New Haven. The result was a tower of almost 98m of height with only 23 ...
The new tower rises on its four oak shafts at the Oak Street Connector, adjacent to the “New Haven Coliseum” ice hockey stadium demolished in 2007 at One Columbus Plaza in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Often modern buildings have been criticized for their lack of context, but in the case of New Haven the construction of large structures re...
Located next to Oak Street Connector, the architects designed a structure that has a scale compatible with the highway, a great change of scale for the architects of the time. The intent of the design was to make a strong vertical presence at the entrance from the freeway to New Haven. In fact, it has become a symbolic gateway to the city that is o...
The shape of the 23-story building stems in part from the construction method in which the axles were first lifted over their entire height and then filled with a continuous cast of concrete. The building has five towers, four exteriors, one on each corner of the square floor and an interior tower for the elevator, all made of concrete with steel b...
- New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Dec 24, 2010 · The Knights of Columbus Building in New Haven, Connecticut, is the second tallest building in the skyline although it is only 23 stories. Its modern construction and design were revolutionary at...
Oct 31, 2020 · Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus and a native of Waterbury, Conn., is pictured in an undated photo. More than 1,000 people attended an Aug. 12 Mass on top of Holy Land ...
