Did you know: Dayton’s tallest building is so big it has its own ZIP code

The Kettering Tower, Dayton’s tallest building, has its own ZIP code: 45423.

At 405 feet tall, the 30-story building, which was originally the Winters Bank Tower, transformed the city’s skyline.

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Credit: Dayton Daily News Archive

Credit: Dayton Daily News Archive

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Credit: HANDOUT

During the 1969 groundbreaking Frank Anger, the bank board chairman, said the new bank building would meet the needs of the future and that future would include a day “when a checking account customer will have a means of identification enabling him to cash a personal check at any bank in the United States.”

Builders poured more than 3,400 cubic yards of concrete to form the foundation and bolted together 4,000 tons of steel as the building shaped up like a giant erector set over the city.

Credit: Dayton Daily News

Credit: Dayton Daily News

The exterior is bronzed anodized aluminum with bronze solar glass panels. The complex is 500,000 square feet, about 12 acres.

The son and wife of inventor Charles Kettering, Eugene and Virginia, were the driving force behind the construction of the $15 million building. The pair believed the skyscraper would be a catalyst for downtown growth.

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