The Superior Building, originally known as the Cleveland Discount Building, is a high-rise building in Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...

, Ohio

Ohio

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. The building rises 265 feet (81 m) in Downtown Cleveland

Downtown Cleveland

Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of the City of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Reinvestment in the area in the mid-1990s spurred a rebirth that continues to this day, with over $2 billion in residential and commercial developments slated for the area over the next few years...

. It contains 22 floors, and was completed in 1922. The Superior Building currently stands as the 26th-tallest building in the city. The architectural firm who designed the building was Walker & Weeks

Walker and Weeks

Walker and Weeks was an architecture firm based in Cleveland, Ohio founded by Frank Ray Walker and Harry F. Weeks .-Background:...

. The building's design incorporates a set of Doric

Doric order

The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...

 columns in its base.

The Superior Building was one of the first modern skyscrapers to be completed in Cleveland. However, it never stood as the tallest structure in the city; the Keith Building

Keith Building

The Keith Building is a skyscraper in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. At the time it was built in 1922, it was the tallest building in Cleveland. It houses the Palace Theater, Playhouse Square Center's second-largest theater. It has been a national historic building since 1978. In 1987 the Keith building...

, also completed in 1922, rose only 7 feet (2 m) taller, and thus captured the title of tallest building in Cleveland. The Superior Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1991.