Capital Bank Tower______Other Name ~ /Site Number Boji Tower

NPS Form 10-900 (Rev. Aug. 2002)

United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 8 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES ~~ ~A~I~Wfl %~ks~~~~1{fACES REGISTRATION FORM .. - ... ..

This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (National Register Bulletin 16A). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering the information requested. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. Place additional entries and narrative items on continuation sheets (NPS Form 1 0-900a). Use a typewriter, word processor, or computer, to complete all items. ======1. N arne of Property ======historic name _Capital Bank Tower______other name ~ /site number _Boji Tower.

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======~======street & number _124 W. Allegan Street not for publication_N/A_ city or town _Lansing______vicinity _N/A_ st:2tc ___Michigan ____ code _MI_ county _Ingham code _065 zip code _ 48933 __

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===~======As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this _X_ nomination __ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Regi~ter of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property _X_ meets __ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recomrnend that this property he considered significant_ nationally -,-. slap;~{];: ~t;=~-Iation sheet for ,:]:r;al f~. -mm_e_n-ts-.)-- ·

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_Downtown Lansing ______======6. Function or Use

======~======Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Cat: _COMMERCE/TRADE Sub: _financial institution __ _ COMMERCE/TRADE______business,______

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======~======Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions) _Art Deco ______Skyscraper__ _

Materials (Enter categories from instructions) foundation _Granite______roof ASPHALT______walls BRICK______Limestone ______other __METAL ______

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7. Physical Description

The Capital National Tower is a brick, twenty two-story tower with a Romanesque base and Art Deco inspired upper floors located in the downtown business district of the City of Lansing, directly east of the Michigan State Capitol building. Rectangular in plan, the tower covers the southwest corner ofthe building and its top, clad in limestone, steps back at the corners. The building fills two city lots and abuts the sidewalk on both Capitol A venue and Allegan Street, leaving no room for landscaping. The property is in good condition with a ten-story addition constructed in 1967 and a more recent replacement ofthe windows in the lower levels.

The original building was completed in 1931 and consists of an eighteen-story tower that sits atop a four-story bank building encompassing an entire city lot measuring 66 by 135 feet. In 1967 a ten-story addition that replicated the style and materials ofthe original building was added on a full second city lot to the east. The entire building has a polished granite foundation that supports a steel structure clad on the exterior with reddish brown brick and limestone trim. On the corners and between the hays of the tower, piers with seventeen shades ofbrick graduating from dark brown at the bottom to buff at the top have regularly spaced rows of darker brick to simulate quoins. Tena cotta and brick provide arches and decorative elements on the lower part of the building, and limestone provides a decorative cap to the parapet walls and caps offthe tower.

The main entrance to the original building fronts on Allegan Street and has a three-story recessed Romanesque archway. The archway is emphasized on both sides with three terra-cotta columns with differing decorative shafts. The trim surrounding the top of the arch corresponds to the column shaft that it rests on. Rosettes punctuate the front of the arch. Four stone steps rise through the arch to the recessed aluminum doorways which consist of two revolving doors with a set of double doors between them. The entire entrance bay is covered with a thick black metal "roof' that has on its fascia in gold letters, "Boji Tower, 124 W. Allegan." It is unknown when this entry configuration was installed; originally the entrance was of wrought-bronze and had decorative gates in front of the doors and decorative grills above. Corinthian pilasters separated the bays. Topping off the entry were wrought-bronze panels with the same circular design found on medallions within the arches just below the start of the windows of the tower.

Behind and above the doors is a two-story arched window openi..'1g with a regular grid formed by the mullions. Originally this opening contained similarly configured metal windows with clear glass; they were replaced in 2004.

Windows flank both sides of the main entrance. At the frrst level a fixed casement window, originally double hung, has a gothic arch with anum relief in the arch. Above each of these windows is a single double hung window. Above the windows, mnning around the entire exterior, is a slightly projecting cornice that corresponds to the top of the capitols in the arches of the entrance and other openings. On the front of the tower above the cornice are four bands of patterned brick that are interspersed with square medallions alternating between a ship and an eagle. A blind arcade in brick with a rosette in the center of each arch runs across every bay and caps off the base of the tower and mns around to the north elevation on the lower part of the building.

The north elevation of the original building has a single two-story arched window in each bay of the tower and banking hall. The windows were replaced in 2004 with a grid pattern forn1ed by mullions and reflective glass. The original windows were metal with a similar mullion configuration; however, the glass was clear and there was a solid band conesponding to the cornice running in line with the spring points of the arches and above the lower section of windows. The arch surrounds have a decorative tetTa-cotta molding. In the floor above are paired double hung NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

CAPITAL NATIONAL TOWER Ingham County, Michigan Section 7 Page 2 windows separated by a Corinthian pilaster. Each window has a blind arch with a terra-cotta urn relief filling the arch. Above the windows across all of the bays is a blind brick arcade with a rosette in each arch.

The tower is symmetrical with all four sides being three bays wide and the bays being separated by lighter brick piers that are made to look like stone quoins. Each bay contains two copper clad double hung windows equally spaced within the bay. Decorative lead panels separate the windows between floors. The brick walls of the tower are capped with limestone. The center bay continues for two stories and is clad in limestone with a non-original wide window opening filling the entire bay. Originally there were two double hung windows in line with the windows below. Presumably the opening was altered sometime after 1954 when one story, aluminum and glass framed sunrooms were added on both sides of the center bay on the north side and the southeast corner ofthe tower.

The north and south sides of the tower have carved limestone panels in the center bay and the top steps back with limestone panels with a pair of arches. On the east side of the tower the center bay projects but is covered with metal panels that match the color of the red bhck on the tower. Originally letters spelling "Capital National Bank" ran vertically down the side. The center bay is topped with a clock and the remains of a "Michigan National Bank" sign that were both added after 1954. A tall metal radio tower/antenna tops the building. Originally a neon ball that appeared to rotate was installed on top of the tower, but it was removed at an unknown date.

A second Romanesque arched entrance marks the center ofthe 1967 addition. It has a single carved terra-cotta column on each side and a surround with rosettes in the face of the surround. A ramp with a metal railing and steps approaches a central revolving aluminum and glass door flanked by single doors on either side. This is topped by a thick black metal "roof' that has gold letters on the fascia spelling "Boji Tower, 124 W. Allegan." Behind and above the doors is a large arched window opening divided into a grid with mullions. Dark panels of glass are in the row immediately above the door and the row below the transom.

There is a large, two-story arched window with a mullion and glass configuration similar to the entrance on both sides. Two rows of terra-cotta rope molding surround the top of the arch on each window. In the floor above in each of the bays of the addition there are grouped double hung windows separated by Corinthian pilasters. Each window has a blind arch with a medallion in the center and rope molding around the top of the arch. Above these windows across the top of each bay is a blind brick arcade with a rosette in the center of each arch.

All elevations of the floors above the base repeat the style of the tower with dark brick bays containing double hung windows separated by lighter colored brick piers made to imitate quoins. On the south elevation the center bay has a set of three double hung windows with two windows in the other bay. The top of the addition has a metal penthouse that is two stories high. The east and north elevations that are above adjacent buildings duplicate the appearance of the upper stories of the addition.

Upon passing through the original entry doors the lobby of the building has terrazzo floors. A non-original set of glass doors enters the original two-story banking hall, which has been converted into a Michigan Senate hearing room. The black and white checkerboard terrazzo floor has been covered with carpet and the walnut paneled teller booths and banking tables have been removed. The octagonal pattern coffered ceiling with the original decorative paint and Ionic columned balustrade around the mezzanine floor remain, as do the suspended Art Deco style glass light fixtures. The mezzanine level has the original two-story arched window openings on all four sides. On the east and north walls the openings remain but the glass was replaced with mirrors when the addition was constructed. The banking hall was first carpeted and teller booths changed in 1968 when the addition was constructed. A second banking hall in the NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

CAPITAL NATIONAL TOWER Ingham County, Michigan Section 7 Page 3 addition is two stories in height with wood pilasters topped by decorative carved capitals. The hall has been divided into offices with a small bank branch.

The original brass elevator doors in the tower were specially designed by Haughton Elevator and contain relief panels depicting the life ofR.E. Olds. The top panel shows Olds in his first three wheeled car, the second in his father's machine shop, and the third in a farm field, and the bottom panel represented modem transportation with a fast train and an airplane side by side. The interior of the elevator cars have been remodeled. The upper office floors have all been changed, but the sixteenth floor hallway retains its original terrazzo floor and marble covered walls. The original floor plan was configured with a central circulation area and restroorns with office space around the outer walls that could be constructed to suit the tenant of the space. The offices in the addition are similarly configured.

The office space in the tower goes to the twenty-first floor. The twenty-second and twenty-third floors are used for receptions and meetings. They are not ornate and are accessed by a separate elevator. The twenty-second floor is primarily open space and has three one story sunroorns added at the northwest, southwest, and southeast comers in the 1950s by Michigan National Bank. The twenty-third floor is furnished as a private office and a thirty-nine person conference room. It retains the original gold leafed domes in the center of the main room ceiling and in the elevator lobby ceiling. The elevator lobby also retains its original terrazzo floor. Two basement levels of the tower were built for parking and remain unaltered today and are still used for parking. The garage is entered through an alley door on the north elevation. A portion of one of the basement levels contains a large bank vault that is original to the building. Although no longer in use as a vault, the large doors and reinforced walls remain. Capital National Tower Ingham County, Michigan Page4

======8. Statement of Significance ======Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing)

A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history.

_X_ B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.

_X_ C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.

D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations (Mark "X" in aU the boxes that apply.)

A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes.

B removed from its original location.

C a birthplace or a grave.

D a cemetery.

E a reconstructed building, object, or structure.

F a commemorative property.

G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.

Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) __Architecture __Commerce ______Industry

Period of Significance _1929-1950______

Significant Dates _1931_ Capital National Tower Ingham County, Michigan Page 5

Significant Person (Complete if Criterion B is marked above) _Old_s, Ransom E. ______

Cultural Affiliation ______

Architect/Builder _Hopkins & Dentz ______Hutter Construction Company __

Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) ======9. Major Bibliographical References ======(Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form on one or more continuation sheets.)

Previous documentation on file (NPS) _preliminary determination of indivjduallisting (36 CFR 67) has been requested. _previously listed in the National Register _previously determined eligible by the National Register _designated a National Historic Landmark _recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # ______recorded by Historic American Engineering Record #

Primary Location of Additional Data _x_ State Historic Preservation Office _ Other State agency _ Federal agency _ Local government _x_ University Other Name of repository: ______======10. Geographical Data ======:======Acreage of Property _less than one acre

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Zone Easting Northing Zone Easting Northing 1 16 700309E 4733840N 3 2 4------_NIA_ See continuation sheet.

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8. Significance

The Capital Bank Tower, the tallest building in downtown Lansing, was completed in 1931 and is significant as one of the few remaining buildings closely associated with Ransom E. Olds. Olds was one of Lansing's most important residents and is best known for his role in creating the Olds Motor Car Company and the REO Motor Company, and for holding a number of patents for his mechanical inventions. In addition to manufacturing, Olds was interested in banking and real estate investments and held property in Michigan and Florida. He created the R.E. Olds Company to manage those investments for his family. The company's offices were in the Capital Bank Tower, which owned the building until1954, four years after Olds' death. The brick and limestone building was designed by Hopkins and Dentz, architects from New York City, who described the building as being of modem Romanesque architecture.

First announced by R.E. Olds in January, 1928, the plans for the Capital National Tower originally called for a sixteen-story tower designed by bank architects the Weary and Alford Company, Chicago, as a new home for the Capital National Bank of which R.E. Olds was founder and president. The initial plans also provided for a possible future connection to the Hotel Olds which was completed in 1927 directly to the north. The site of the tower was mostly vacant. Olds had purchased the property in 1924 from the members of a theater company attempting to construct the Blackstone Theater on the site.

In June, 1929, the R.E. Olds Company announced that the original plans for a sixteen-story building and connection to the Hotel Olds had been abandoned and that a eighteen-story tower topping a four-story bank building would be built on the site, and that permission from the Lansing City Council was requested so that the building could exceed the one hundred and fifty foot height limitation of the zoning ordinance. In addition to the Capital National Bank, it was announced that the general offices of Durant Motors would occupy five floors, and two levels ofunderground parking would be provided. The Lansing City Council amended the zoning ordinance in July, 1929, to permit construction of fireproofbuildings to an unlimited height in the commercial districts.

Plans for the building were completed by late August, 1929, and were submitted to contractors for bids. The contract was awarded to Hutter Construction Company of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in mid-October, 1929. The R.E. Olds Company paid for the construction with cash on hand, which allowed the building to be constructed during the Depression. Construction on the building started with clearing the site on November 14, 1929, and by May, 1930, the steel structure was complete.

On January 17, 1931, it was announced that the first tenants of the building, Miller Bailey & Co., certified public 1 accountants, had moved into the ninth floor of the tower, and on January 26 h it was announced that the R.E. Olds Company had moved into the tenth floor. Construction of the building was officially completed on March 2, 1931. During the month of March R.E. Olds personally hosted meetings, tours, and luncheons for many ofLansing's civic clubs including the Lansing Art Club, the Exchange Club, the Rotary, the Kiwanis, the Lions, the American Business Club, and two woman's service organizations, the Zonta Club and the Business and Professional Women. The Durant Motor Car Company never moved in, the company having gone out ofbusiness before the building was completed. However, Olds continued to promote the building to out of town businesses, enticing any companies locating from outside ofLansing with four free months of rent in the Capital National Tower. Olds was certain that he could assist in the growth of Lansing despite the difficult economic times. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

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On Saturday, March 28, much publicity was made of the moving of the safety deposit boxes from the old Capital National Bank offices in the Hollister Building, at the corner of Allegan and Washington, the one block distance to the vault located in the basement ofthe new tower. Armed guards and policemen supervised the move, which was done by hand truck. On March 31 51 R.E. Olds hosted Governor Brucker and two hundred other state officials for a luncheon and tour where, "Mr. Olds told the guests of his pride in the buildings and his and the bank's pride in the fact that it had been constructed during the time of economic depression when men needed the work." 1 On Monday, April6, when the bank was closed for an official bank holiday, financial leaders from Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and New York toured the new bank and building. The bank was promoted as having the most modern conveniences for banking. 2 One of these features was the two story windows in the main banking hall which were touted as not needing awnings because the adjustable casings and panes were combined with deep reveals of ornamental Caen stone 1 and the use ofVenetian blinds. On Tuesday, April 7 h, 1931 the Capital National Bank officially opened for business in its new headquarters.

The Capital National Bank was founded by R.E. Olds in 1906 with $100,000 and by the time it moved into the Capital Bank Tower in April, 1931, it had a surr)lus of$600,000. In January, 1930, the bank became a unit of the Guardian Detroit Union group and continued to be promoted as Lansing's strongest bank. The Guardian Detroit Union Group began in 1927 as the Guardian Detroit Bank and consisted of a bank, investment affiliate and a trust company. Becoming known as an automobile bank because of the occupation ofthe majority of its shareholders, the Guardian Detroit Bank merged in December, 1929, with Union Commerce Corporation ofDetroit to create Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. It then took over eight other institutions, including Capital National Bank.

As a result of the 1929 crash and subsequent depression that resulted in the layoff of many automobile workers who then defaulted on their mortgages, returns on Guardian loans decreased dramatically and by February, 1933, the bank was looking to both the federal and state governments, as well as Detroit investors such as Henry Ford, for assistance in staying open. The group, along with their major rival, First National, convinced Michigan's governor to declare an eight day banking holiday beginning on February 14, 1933, so they could develop a plan for reorganization and ask for federal assistance. Much was made of the possibility that if Detroit's banks collapsed it could result in a national bank failure. Although the Michigan banking holiday was extended, the banks hadn't reopened by the time of President Roosevelt's national bank holiday declared for three days on March 6, 1933. The entire Guardian Group did not reopen after the national holiday. A year later the Lansing National Bank was founded and took over the assets of Capital National Bank. The name was changed to the Michigan National Bank in 1941 when it was consolidated with five other banks in Michigan. An advertisement for the building in the State Journal, Lansing, on January 1, 1935, then calls the building the "Olds Tower." An article about the building states that the occupancy increased to 85 percent, and also promoted the success of the three year old "community offices" where businessmen could have a private office without having a personal secretary.

In January 1954 the Michigan National Bank purchased the Capital National Tower from the R.E. Olds Company and renamed the building the Michigan National Tower. In 1967 a ten-story addition designed by Kenneth C. Black Associates, Inc., Architects, ofLansing, was constructed on the east side of the building. It duplicated the exterior architecture of the original buildi.I1g and contained a second multi-story banking room. The original banking room was updated at the same time. In 2001 Michigan National was acquired by ABN-AMRO and became Standard

1 "State Officials Guests at Tower," a clipping from The State Journal, Lansing, 1 April 1931 , in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State Umversity Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan. 2 "New Home of Lansing's Greatest Bank - The Capital National," a clipping from Michigan Roads & Airports, 2 Aprill931, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

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Federal Banlc The "Michigan National" signage was removed at that time. In 1998 Louie and Ron Boji purchased the building. They eventually renamed it "Boji Tower." Standard Federal still maintains a branch in the 1967 banking hall, but the original banking hall has been converted into a hearing room for the Michigan Senate.

Although most associated with the creation ofthe Oldsmobile, Ransom E. Olds was the holder of numerous patents and was involved with many business ventures. Born June 3, 1864, in Geneva, Ohio, to Pliny Fisk Olds and Sarah Whipple Olds, Ransom was the youngest of five children. After several moves, in 1880 the family traded a Parma, Ohio, farm for a house and lot on Cherry Street in Lansing, and a second lot at Allegan and Grand Avenue. Pliny established a machine and repair shop, and sold the lot at Allegan and Grand. Ransom was sixteen at the time.

In 1883 Ransom completed the six-month accounting course at Bartlett's Business College to become the bookkeeper and a machinist at P.F. Olds & Son. Between 1887 and 1892 he and his father sold small gasoline powered steam engines. In 1887 Olds conducted the first test run of his steam powered, three wheel, horseless carriage in Lansing while working at his father's shop. On 'June 5, 1889, he married Metta U. Woodward. They had four children, but only two daughters survived.

In 1892 Olds developed an improved version ofthe 1887 horseless carriage, and Scientific American investigated and published an article about the vehicle. Olds sold the car for $400 to the Francis Times Company, a London patent medicine firm, and it was shipped to Bombay, India. There are conflicting accounts as to whether the car ever arrived in India (it may have been lost at sea), but the transaction marked the first American vehicle sold for export. However, Olds did not immediately go into vehicle production.

In 1896 in the midst of the other early automobile creators, Olds started work on his third vehicle, this time with a gasoline combustion engine and a transmission for varying speeds, including reverse. He had experience with gasoline combustion engines because beginning at 1892 P.F. Olds & Son worked on developing their version ofthe gasoline combustion engine. Frank G. Clark, the son of a carriage manufacturer, built the body for the new vehicle. Olds began a partnership with Clark, with the hope of going into production with the vehicle. In August, 1897, the Olds Motor Vehicle Company was formed with other prominent Lansing investors, Edward W. Sparrow, Eugene F. Cooley, and Arthur Stebbins, who had also invested in the expansion ofP.F. Olds & Son in the early 1890s. The company ofP.F. Olds and Son was also reorganized as the Olds Gasoline Engine Works.

In 1889 the Olds Motor Vehicle Company was reorganized with new investors in an attempt to better promote the car and increase sales. As a result the company was relocated to Detroit on Jefferson A venue, near Belle Isle, in 1900 and called the Olds Motor Works. The gasoline engine plant remained in Lansing. Later that same year the new Detroit plant was completely destroyed by fire, except for the foundry. In order to quickly get back into production Olds used the idea of interchangeable parts and focused on the production of just one model ofvehicle, the curved dash, and ordered the parts from various companies throughout Detroit. The Dodge Brothers and Leland built engines, and the bodies were ordered from Byron F. Everitt, who brought in Fred J. Fisher.

Before the plant could be reconstructed in Detroit, the businessmen of Lansing purchased land and convinced Olds and his investors to return to Lansing to produce the car. Labor unrest in Detroit and an available supply of parts in Lansing convinced the Detroit investors to allow the plant to be built in Lansing. The site was the former fairgrounds ofthe Central Michigan Agricultural Society. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

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"As the first quantity producer of automobiles, Olds was most responsible for establishing cash as the only basis upon which production and sales could satisfactorily be discharged."3 In order to increase sales Olds emphasized advertising in magazines and newspapers, and used racing and endurance runs. In 1903 the Olds Motor Works was the most successful automobile company in the country. However, by the end of 1903 Olds had so many disagreements with one of the investing families, the Smiths, that he was voted out of his officer position. He then left the company, selling his shares. The Smiths later sold the company to General Motors.

By the end of 1904, in partnership with Rueben Shettler, Olds formed the REO Motor Company with Horace T. Thomas being named chief engineer. By the summer of 1906 Olds had made this company one of the most successful of the automobile manufacturers. This prosperity continued through 1907 and Olds began establishing parts suppliers in Lansing for REO. In 191 0 REO acquired additional property in Lansing and formed the REO Motor Truck Company. By 1911 truck had overtaken car production.

The move into truck production represented only part of Ransom Olds' diversification into other interests. In addition to the automotive business, he formed the R.E. Olds Company in 1912 as an investment firm to manage his real estate holdings and family investments. He also founded the Ideal Lawn Mower Company in 1914. About that same time he purchased Elbamar on Grosse Ile as a summer property. Its extensive grounds provided opportunities to test the lawnmowers, and there was a farm manager to oversee the poultry, livestock, and gardens. In 1915 Olds purchased 37,541 acres on Old Tampa Bay in Florida with the idea of creating an agricultural-industrial workman's colony. The REOLDS Farms Company was created in 1916 to develop the community, now called Oldsmar, that architects and planners bad been hired to design. The community was to have had a post office, bank, electric plant, hotel with a beach, boat houses, water works, a transportation system, gardens, churches, schools, and stores. Poultry and livestock were to be imported from Elbamar on Grosse Ile. However, not enough lots were ever sold in the community. By 1923 Olds sold both Oldsmar and Elbamar.

Ransom and his wife Metta were active in local charities. In 1908 they donated their summer home on Pine Lake as a summer campsite for the Lansing YWCA. In 1910 Olds was appointed to the board of trustees of the Edward W. Sparrow Hospital Association, and in 1912 they purchased the old hospital in Lansing to create a daycare center for children of working mothers. In 1914 they provided the land and building for the Ladies' Library and Literary Club in Lansing. Olds also served on the boards of Kalamazoo College and Hillsdale College, and was a member of the First Baptist Church ofLansing. He donated money to many building campaigns including $1000 to every Lansing church building project, $100,000 to replace the Engineering Building at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1916, and $130,000 to construct the R.E. Olds Science Hall at Kalamazoo College in 1928.

Before building the Capital Bank Tower, Olds assisted a group of Lansing citizens in fmancing and building a large hotel opposite the Capitol. "At the request ofthe citizens, lessee and with the consent of Mr. Olds, the hotel was named Hotel Olds."4 His involvement in the construction ofthe Capital National Tower was even more extensive. He personally oversaw the design that the architects developed, and he rode the first steam shovel full of dirt out of the ground. The R.E. Olds Company fmanced the entire project without loans. The day before the bank opened, Mr. Olds stated, "This is the realization of a lifetime dream for me and one of the happiest days of my life. I believe it gives Lansing bank facilities on par with those offered anywhere in the state. And I hope Lansing enjoys this bank

3 Niemeyer, Glenn. Th e Automotive Career of Ransom E. Olds. p. 50. 4 Yarnell, Duane. Auto Pioneering: A Remarkable Story of Ransom E. 0/ds, Father of Oldsmobile and Reo. p. 196 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

CAPITAL NATIONAL TOWER Ingham County, Michigan Section 8 Page 5 and this building in its operation as much as I have enjoyed it in its building process."5 In an article in Money and Commerce, Mr. Olds is given much credit for the many unique and modem features of the building: "Mr. Olds' genius for doing things a little better than others is largely responsible for the many novel features ofbeauty and utility which have been so successfully incorporated in his building. In co-operation with his architects, Hopkins and Dentz ofN ew York, he has erected a structure which will be a lasting and appropriate monument to his genius. "6

After a brief return to active management at REO Motor Car Company in 1934, Olds officially retired in 1936. The company continued through reorganizations and was eventually sold in 1954 and again 1957. Olds' life after his retirement from REO in 1936 was filled with extensive travels, spending winters in Florida, and summers on Lake Charlevoix at Oldswood, which Olds constructed in the fall of 1926. Olds became an avid yachtsman after chartering a houseboat in Florida in 1906. He had several yachts constructed, the REO-MAR IV being used by the U.S. Government during World War II. Olds did continue to make periodic visits to Lansing to his office at the R.E. Olds Company and their home on South Washington Avenue (demolished for I-496). Olds died in Lansing on August 25, 1950, at the age of94, his wife Metta dying soon after on September 2, 1950.

The architects of the building, Hopkins and Dentz, have an advertisement in Money and Commerce with a photograph of the building and listing themselves as bank architects and vault and equipment engineers. The firm of Hopkins and Dentz also designed a fifteen-story office building in Columbus, Ohio, the Buckeye State Building & Loan Company Building (listed in the National Register), which was completed in 1927. Much more is known about Alfred Hopkins than G. J. Dentz, as Hopkins authored several books on architecture.

In 1913 Hopkins first published Modem Farm Buildings and his work was profiled in an article by John J. Klaber, in the April, 1915, issue ofThe Architectural Record. Hopkins stressed cleanliness and scientific arrangement offarm buildings and the author of the article states, ''The labor of farm work has been simplified, the sanitation is greatly improved, and the products of the farm are of a better quality, particularly in the matter of the purity of milk, that most vital point in modem sanitary reform. To this improvement no architect has contributed more than Mr. Alfred Hopkins. While he has not devoted himself exclusively to farm building design, he has, to some extent, specialized in this class of work, and in many cases he has been called upon to design farm buildings on estates where the residences were the work of other architects. He has also written extensively on this subject, and his book, Modem Farm Buildings, is one ofthe leading works on this phase of architecture."

Hopkins designed a large number of estates for gentlemen farmers, including Louis C. Tiffany, Esq., in Oyster Bay, Long Island; A. Watson Armour, Esq., Lake Forest, Illinois; Medill McCormick, Esq., Byron, Illinois; the Franz Huntingdon House in Columbus, Ohio; and Hartwood Acres near Pittsburgh for John and Mary Finn Lawrence in 1929.

According to the 2002 Annual Report ofthe Adirondack Trust Company, in 1916 the principals ofthe Adirondack Trust Company in Saratoga Springs contracted with Hopkins to design a new bank there. At the time Hopkins' offices were at 101 Park Avenue in New York, near the newly constructed Grand Central Terminal. In 1920 Hopkins

5 "Capital Bank Tower Visited by Financiers," "a clipping from Lansing Capital News, 6 April 1931 , in theRE. 01ds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan. 6 "Olds Building in Lansing" a clipping from Money and Commerce, April 1931 , in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

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In 1921 Hopkins published, The English Village Church - Exteriors and Interiors, based on his travels through Oxfordshire, England. In it he recommends touring the area by bicycle, not the "fast going motor car." In 1930 he wrote Prisons and Prison Building and in 1931 he wrote Planning for Sunshine and Fresh Air. Based on his years of experience and travels in Europe which he describes in the book, Hopkins details how houses should be best sited, designed, furnished, and landscaped. Alfred Hopkins died in Princeton, New Jersey, at the age of seventy-one in June, 1941. The obituary states that he was president ofthe firm of Alfred Hopkins and Associates and ''was well known for his designs of residences, farm and stable groups, and bank buildings. As a student of penology he drew plans for several prisons in New York State and for the Federal prisons in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and Terre Haute, Indiana.'' 7

It is not clear why R. E. Olds selected Hopkins and Dentz to design the Capital National Tower, especially after the initial design was completed by the Chicago firm. Olds did travel to New York a great deal, and with Hopkins' extensive work on country estates Olds may have had contact with him. With Olds' interest in his houses and planning at Elbamar and Oldsmar, he probably knew about Hopkins' publications on farm buildings. Olds interacted with many bankers around the country and may have learned of Hopkins through those channels. Both men also traveled extensively abroad and may have met there.

The Capital National Bank Tower is just one of many bank buildings being constructed around Michigan in the period of 1930 to 1932. By the time the building was complete work was already starting on City National Bank of Lansing's fourteen-story building just a block away at the corner of Michigan and Washington. Two months after Capital National opened, Central National Bank in Battle Creek opened its twenty-two story tower, and the city anticipated the opening of the eighteen-story Old Merchants National Bank and Trust Company in September. Another member of the Guardian Group, the Union Industrial Trust and Savings Bank, opened a Smith, Hinchman, and Grylls designed sixteen-story structure in Flint in December, 1930. Other banks planning or having newly opened buildings included Citizens Savings Bank, Mt. Clemens; the State Bank of Fraser; the Ann Arbor Savings Bank; the Bank ofPickford, Chippewa County; and an addition to First National Bank in Ann Arbor.

In Lansing the Capital National Tower was a highly promoted improvement to Lansing's skyline, although it was really part of a larger growth period that lasted from the 1910s into the late 1930s. Construction during the period included, among others, the Hollister Building (1890 and 1915), directly to the east on Allegan; the Strand Theater and Arcade Building (1920-22) on Washington; a new Masonic Temple (1924-25) on South Capitol; the Hotel Olds (1925-26) located directly to the north; the Lee Black and Kenneth C. Black designed Bank of Lansing Building (1931-32) at 101 North Washington Square; the post office/federal building on Allegan (1932-34); and Knapp's Department Store (1937-38) on Washington.

7 "Alfred Hopkins" Weekly Bulletin, Michigan Society of Architects. June 24, 1941. p. 7. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

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9. Major Bibliographical References

"Alfred Hopkins," Weekly Bulletin, Michigan Society of Architects. (Vol. 1, No. 25) Detroit, Michigan: June 24, 1941. p. 7.

"Bank, Offices Will Occupy Huge Edifice," a clipping from The State Journal, Lansing, 18 June 1929, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

"Capital Bank Tower Visited by Financiers," "a clipping from Lansing Capital News, 6 April1931, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

"Capital National In New Home," Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record. (Vol. 47, No. 26) Detroit, Michigan: June 27, 1931. pgs. 11-12.

Hopkins, Alfred, Architect. Planning for Sunshine and Fresh Air. New York: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Inc., 1931.

Hopkins, Alfred, A.A.I.A.. Modern Farm Buildings. New York, Robert M. McBride & Co., 1920.

Hopkins, Alfred. The English Village Church: Exteriors and Interiors. New York, William Helbum Inc., 1921.

Kelley, Keith. Interview and tour ofbuilding with Kristine M. Kidorf, 28 June 2005.

Kennedy, Susan Estabrook. The Banking Crisis of 1933. Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1973.

Klaber, John. "The Grouping of Farm Buildings, Examples from the Work of Alfred Hopkins." Architectural Record Vol. 37, April, 1915.

May, George S. R.E. Olds: Auto Industry Pioneer. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977.

"Michigan National Bank, 2001" ABN-AMRO History, from ABN-AMRO website, www.abnarnro.com

''New Home of Lansing's Greatest Bank- The Capital National," a clipping from Michigan Roads & Airports, 2 April 1931 , in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

Niemeyer, Glenn A. The Automotive Career ofRansom E. Olds. East Lansing: MSU Business Studies, 1963.

"Olds Building in Lansing" a clipping from Money and Commerce, April 1931, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

"Plan 22-Story Bank Building," a clipping from Lansing Capital News, 18 June 1929, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

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Scrapbook Number 209, 1928 to 1936, R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

"Signal From Olds Tower," a clipping from Lansing Capital News, 2 December 1930, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

"Skyscraper Era Here Dates Back 30 Years," The State Journal, Lansing, April9, 1961, pgs. 40 & 41.

"Skyscraper Plans Explained by Olds," a clipping from The State Journal, Lansing, 1 January 1928, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

"State Officials Guests at Tower," a clipping from The State Journal, Lansing, 1 April 1931, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

Waite, Charles V. 2002 Annual Report, Adirondack Trust, Saratoga Springs, New York, 2002.

"Windows ofBank Are Interesting," a clipping from The State Journal, Lansing, 6 April 1931, in the R.E. Olds Papers, Michigan State University Archives and Historical Collections, East Lansing, Michigan.

Y ameli, Duane. Auto Pioneering: A Remarkable Story ofRansom E. Olds, father of Oldsmobile and Reo. Lansing, Michigan: Franklin DeKleine Company, 1949. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET

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10. Geographical Data

Verbal Boundary Description

Parcel Code: 33-01-01-16-325-012

Described as Lots 6 & 7, Block 110, Original Plat, City ofLansing, Ingham County, Michigan.

Boundary Justification:

The boundary is the entire property associated with the building. Capital National Tower Ingham County, Michigan Page 6

======11. Form Prepar~d By ======name/title_Kristine M. Kidorf______organization_Kidorf Preservation Consulting, ____ date_J ul y 13, 2005. ______street & number_451 E. Ferry Street.______telephone_313-300-9376 __ city or town_Detroit______state_MI_ zip code _48202 ___ ======Additional Documentation ======Submit the following items with the completed form:

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======~======Property Owner ======(Complete this item at the request of the SHPO or FPO.) name _Michael Peplowski, COO, The Boji Group. ______street & number_124 W. Allegan Street.______telephone_517-377-3000 __ city or town_Lansing,______state_MI_ zip code_48933 __

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All photographs were taken by Kristine M. Kidorf on August 31, 2005. The photographs were printed using Hewlett Packard Vivera Inks (95 tri-color cartridge) on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper (high gloss).

1. West fac;:ade from Allegan Street. 2. East fac;:ade from Allegan Street. 3. East and south facades from vacant lot south ofWashington Avenue. 4. North and west facades from Capitol lawn. 5. Lower half of south fac;:ade from Capital Avenue. 6. Interior of former banking hall, looking north from mezzanine. 7. Elevator doors at main lobby, looking east. ------

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United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet

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SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD

NRIS Reference Number : 05001357 Date Listed: 12/06/2005

Capital Bank Tower Ingham MI Property Name County State

N/A Multiple Name

This property is listed in the National Register of His toric Places in accordance wi th the attached nomination documentation subject to the following exceptions, - exclusi ons, or amendments, notwithstanding the National Park Ser v i ce certification i ncluded in the nomination documentation .

Date of Action ======Amended Items in Nomination:

~ Name of Property

Note that the correct historic name of the property is ' Capital Bank Tower ' as printed in line 1 of the registration form and not 'Capital National Tower ' as printed on the heading of the registration form's subsequent pages .

3 . State/Federal Agency Certi fication

The nomination is recommended to be significant locally.

This information has been discussed with Robert 0 . Christensen, National Register Coordinator for the SHPO of Michigan, by telephone .

DISTRIBUTION : National Register property file Nominating Authority (without attachment) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET

REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION

PROPERTY Capital Bank Tower NAME:

MULTIPLE Downtown Lansing MRA NAME:

STATE & COUNTY: MICHIGAN, Ingham

DATE RECEIVED: 10/28/05 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 11/21/05 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 12/06/05 DATE OF 45TH DAY: 12/11/05 DATE OF WEEKLY LIST:

REFERENCE NUMBER: 05001357

REASONS FOR REVIEW:

APPEAL: N DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N LESS THAN 50 YEARS: N OTHER: N PDIL: N PERIOD: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N REQUEST: N SAMPLE: N SLR DRAFT: Y NATIONAL: N

COMMENT WAIVER: N

ACCEPT RETURN REJECT ------DATE ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: The Capital Bank Tower is significant locally under Criterion B for its association with a locally prolific businessman and inventor, Ransom E. Olds, and under Criterion C as representative of the bank buildings that were built in the region during the 1930s. Designed by New York City architects, Hopkins and Dentz, the building reflects the economic and commercial growth of the region and retains integrity from its period of significance.

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October 19, 2005 8 20C5 Ms. Janet Matthews, Keeper 'NAT. REGISTER Of HISTORIC PLACES National Register of Historic Places NATIONAL PARK SERVICE National Park Service 1 1201 Eye Street, NW, 8 h Floor Washington, DC 20005

Dear Ms. Matthews:

Enclosed are National Register nomination materials for the Capital Bank Tower in Lansing, Ingham County, Michigan. The city of Lansing is a Certified Local Government. We enclose a copy of the National Register Nomination Review Report for this nomination providing the city's comments.

This property is being submitted for listing in the National Register. No w1itten comments concerning this nomination were submitted to us prior to the submission of the nomination to you.

Questions concerning this nomination should be addressed to Robert 0. Christensen, National Re gi~,te r coo!dinal.or, by phone at 517/335-2719 or by e-mail at [email protected].

Sincerely y mrs, PJ{)!w~ Brian D. Conway State Historic Preservation )fficer

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STATE HISTORIC PRESER\/ATIGI\I OFFICE, MIC~IGAN HiSTORICAL CENTER "T02 WEST KALAMAZOC STC~EET • P .O. BOX 30740 • LANSING, MICHIGAN 46909-8240 (517) 373-1630 www.michigan .gov/hal Certified Local Government National Register Nomination Review Report

Department of History, Arts & Libraries Michigan Historical Center State Historic Preservation Office

Name of Property: Capital Bank Tower Address: 124 West Allegan Street Owner: Michael Peplowski, COO, The Boji Group, 124 W. Allegan, Lansing 48933 Date completed nomination approved by the SHPO: August 12, 2005

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Date(s) of commission meeting(s) when nomination was reviewed: 9/12/2005

Date of written notice to prop·erty owner of commission meeting: 9 I 8 I 2 0 0 5 ( phone & em a i 1 ) 9/9/2005 (facsimile) The CLG provided the following opportunities for public participation in the review of this nomination: Notified applicant by phone, e-mail, and fax.

Were any written comments received by the CLG? YES NO_x_ (Please submit copies with this report.)

Was the nomination form distributed to CLG Commission members? YES x NO 8/29/ 2 005

Was a site visit made to the property by CLG Commission members? YES x NO __ Ifyes, when? At their own convenience.

Did the CLG seek assistance of the Michigan Historical Center in evaluating the eligibility of this property for the National Register? YES __ NO _x_ VERIFICATION of Professional Qualifications of Commission in accordance with 36 CFR 61, Appendix 1, ofMichigan's Certified Local Government Program. List those commission members who meet the 36 CFR 61 qualifications required to review this type ofresource.

Commission Member Professional Qualifications

1. Mary Toshach MS in Historic Preservation 2 years as a preservation planner 2. 5+ years a s a historic preservation consultant 3+ years on Lansing's HDC 3.

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Was an outside consultant used? YES NO X

If yes, provide the name and list the 36 CFR 61 qualifications the person meets:

The CLG Commission fmds that the property meets the following national register criteria of significance: C r i t e r i a B & c

The CLG Commission finds that the property meets the national register standards of integrity. 'YES x NO

Recommendation of CLG Commission: APPROVAL x DE~ __( specify reasons on a separate sheet of paper) '~f<' ~ 'Pf/Pr S ·gnaht re of Chief Elected Official Date

Date of transmittal of this report to MHC/SHPO ______

Date of receipt of this report by MHC/SHPO ______