Walker & Weeks, the Cleveland architects responsible for the Federal Reserve Bank in Pittsburgh, designed this Art Deco palace, built in 1936 for a fraternal insurance company based in Sharon. It is very unfortunate that the cap of the tower had to be rebuilt recently; the decorative chevrons in the brickwork apparently could not be duplicated, so the cap was rebuilt with plain flat surfaces. But downtown Sharon’s signature building is still an imposing and attractive sight as we cross the Shenango from the west.
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