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The Firestone Building is a historic building constructed in 1929 in downtown Orlando. It was designed by Tampa architectural firm Francis J. Kennard & Son. [1] Located at 578 North Orange Avenue, it was built for Harvey Firestone's Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. It was used by the company until the late 1977 and then rented out. Recently it has housed a namesake club. [2]

Francis J. Kennard American architect

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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey Firestone in 1900 initially to supply solid rubber side-wire tires for fire apparatus, and later, pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era. Firestone soon saw the huge potential for marketing tires for automobiles, and the company was a pioneer in the mass production of tires. Harvey Firestone had a personal friendship with Henry Ford, and used this to become the original equipment supplier of Ford Motor Company automobiles, and was also active in the replacement market.

A schematic of the building was included in a 1933 edition of Arc-welded steel frame structures. [3] In 1989, the Firestone Building was included in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press. [4] A Firestone sign atop the building was removed in 1999. [5]

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References

  1. Steve Rajtar page 154 A Guide to Historic Orlando
  2. Steve Rajtar A Guide to Historic Orlando
  3. Gilbert Dudley Fish Arc-welded steel frame structures: designing, estimating, and construction data for engineers, architects, and contractors McGraw-Hill Book Company, inc., 1933 401 pages
  4. A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, 1989, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, p. 7, ISBN   0-8130-0941-3
  5. Firestone Sign Will Come Down From Orlando Building August 24, 1999 Orlando Sentinel

Coordinates: 28°33′03″N81°22′46″W / 28.5507°N 81.3794°W / 28.5507; -81.3794

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