The Ohio Bell Telephone Company , now doing business as AT&T Ohio, is the Bell Operating Company serving most of Ohio and parts of West Virginia . It is a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T .
6-534: Its headquarters is the Ohio Bell Building at 750 Huron Road, Cleveland , Ohio , and formerly had a secondary headquarters at 150 East Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio , now the Continental Center . Ohio Bell is not affiliated with Cincinnati Bell , which serves Cincinnati, Ohio and other surrounding communities. After the 1984 Bell System Divestiture , Ohio Bell became a subsidiary of Ameritech , one of
12-668: A style influenced by Eliel Saarinen 's unrealized design for the Tribune Tower in Chicago . Work on the building began in 1925 and was completed in 1927 at a cost of $ 5 million. It was briefly the tallest building in Cleveland, surpassed in 1928 by the Terminal Tower . The Huron Road Building was built for necessity. Ohio Bell had its switching center on Michigan Avenue (now vacated) from 1890 to 1927. This building had to be vacated due to
18-411: The Ohio Bell Building ) is an art deco skyscraper located at 750 Huron Road in downtown Cleveland, Ohio . It serves as the corporate headquarters for Ohio Bell , a regional telephone company owned by AT&T . The building has 24 stories and rises to a height of 365 ft (111 m). It was designed by the firm of Hubbell and Benes , in what they called "Modern American Perpendicular Gothic",
24-602: The Ameritech name in favor of "SBC" as a national brand, resulting in the trade name of SBC Ohio . On January 15, 2006, after SBC's acquisition of AT&T, Ohio Bell's trade name was changed, again, to AT&T Ohio , a name which it continues to use today. This article about a telecommunications corporation or company in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ohio Bell Building The AT&T Huron Road Building (formally known as
30-514: The construction of the Terminal Tower complex. During construction, some 10,000 miles of lines and switches were moved from Michigan Avenue to the current Huron Complex. In 1938, the Ohio Bell installed a new switching board, which, by 1944, was receiving some 25,300 long-distance calls daily on average. In 1964, Ohio Bell moved into the new Erieview Tower . The Huron Road building was retained as
36-505: The seven original Regional Bell Operating Companies . The Ohio Bell name continued to be used until January 1993, when Ameritech dropped all of its individual Bell Operating Company names in favor of its corporate name for marketing purposes; Ohio Bell then began doing business as Ameritech Ohio . After Ameritech was acquired by SBC in 1999, Ohio Bell continued to retain the "Ameritech" brand until 2001, when it began doing business as SBC Ameritech Ohio . A year later, in 2002, SBC dropped
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