Goodyear Hall-Ohio Savings and Trust Company, Industrial heritage building in East End, Akron, United States.
Goodyear Hall is a seven-story brick and tile building at the corner of Goodyear Boulevard and East Market Street in Akron. Wide corridors run the length of the main floor, separating twelve store rooms from the auditorium and gymnasium. The auditorium seated 1,686 under a suspended balcony, its 40-foot stage fitted with double apertures so it could serve both the auditorium and the gymnasium, which had a 172-by-100-foot floor and gallery seating for 5,000.
The building was completed in 1920 by Cleveland architects Walker & Weeks for the Goodyear Tire Company. It represented an early corporate investment in worker education and recreation during the height of the industrial age.
The third floor held the legislative chambers of the House of Representatives and Senate of the Goodyear Industrial Republic, a company-run self-government for employees. The same floor had a large girls' community hall and rooms for sewing and domestic science classes. The seventh floor's picture department made films used to teach rubber manufacturing.
The building stands at the corner of East Market Street and Goodyear Boulevard, with two entrances on East Market and a third through the gymnasium. A tunnel once linked the basement to the factory across the street. Renovation by Industrial Realty Group began around 2014; retail space opened on the first floor and 105 apartments, The Residences at East End, were built on the upper floors.
An underground tunnel system connected the basement of this building to the Goodyear factory across the street. This hidden network allowed workers to move between the factory and the recreational and educational spaces without stepping outside.
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