Hartford Building (Dallas, Texas)
Encyclopedia
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.
. It was developed by Trammell Crow
and Eugene Locke and opened in 1960. In separate incidents during construction in 1959, a 20 feet (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. 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 and in 1994.
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
located in the City Center District of downtown
Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District in Dallas, Texas USA, located in the geographic center of the city. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally been defined as bounded by the downtown freeway loop: bounded on the east by I-345 Downtown Dallas is the Central Business District...
Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
(USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
) 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 GroupThe Hartford
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. , usually known as The Hartford, is a Fortune 500 company and one of America’s largest investment and insurance companies...
. It was developed by Trammell Crow
Trammell Crow
F. Trammell Crow was an American real estate developer. Crow is credited for creating several famous real estate projects, including Dallas Market Center, Peachtree Center , and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center.-Biography:Crow was born in Dallas, Texas...
and Eugene Locke and opened in 1960. In separate incidents during construction in 1959, a 20 feet (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. The building's 400 space Bryan Street Garage was replaced with a shared-use garage built for the adjacent Patriot Tower
Patriot Tower
Patriot Tower is a modernist skyscraper located in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas , completed in 1979. The building has 30 floors and rises 448 feet . One Dallas Center is currently tied with the Adam's Mark Hotel North Tower as the 25th-tallest building in the city...
in 1981.
The building was sold in 1961, 1967 and in 1994.