Bingham Company Warehouse, Industrial warehouse in Warehouse District, Cleveland, United States.
Bingham Company Warehouse is a ten-story reinforced concrete building with three basement levels, designed by Walker and Weeks for the W. Bingham Company. Its utilitarian facade reflects the firm's few commercial works, and the structure was built to house the Midwest's largest hardware wholesaler.
In April 1913 the W. Bingham Co., a hardware wholesaler incorporated in 1888, announced a new headquarters in Cleveland's Warehouse District, with land bought for about $400,000 and designs by Walker and Weeks. Excavation began in August 1914 on a 150-by-434-foot site; the city issued the building permit in early 1915. The company closed in 1961, and private investors bought the warehouse in 2001 and converted it into apartments called The Bingham.
The building's name comes from the W. Bingham Co., a hardware manufacturer and wholesaler founded by William Bingham and Henry C. Blossom, which occupied the site until closing in 1961. Since 2001 the former warehouse has been known as The Bingham, with apartments in the converted structure.
The warehouse was sold to private investors in 2001 and converted into apartments known as The Bingham. The building is residential, so the interior is not open to the public; the Walker and Weeks facade can be viewed from the street in the Warehouse District.
The building featured a railroad spur from the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway that ran directly into its basement for loading and unloading cargo. This system allowed freight to move from rail directly into storage areas without additional handling.
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