One South Broad
Philadelphia, United States
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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One South Broad is a 28-story, 472-foot Art Deco office tower completed in 1932 in Center City Philadelphia, designed by architect John Torrey Windrim as an annex to Wanamaker's department store. The building originally housed Wanamaker's Men's Store on its first seven floors, conceived to rival European department stores in scale and variety. After the Philadelphia National Bank purchased the property in 1952, it was converted to banking and office space, a use that persists today with Wells Fargo as the principal tenant occupying nearly half the structure. The tower features a distinctive three-story gallery lobby connecting to the adjacent Widener Building and houses the 17-ton Founder's Bell—one of the world's largest—a memorial to John Wanamaker cast by his son Rodman and rung hourly (except Sundays). Originally topped with massive stainless steel letters spelling PNB, the bell tower's signage was removed in 2014. The building's penthouse, designed for Rodman Wanamaker and his wife on the 24th and 25th floors, was converted to office space in 2000, and its street-level banking space was reimagined for retail and dining use that same year.
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- skyscraper
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- Philadelphia, United States
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