Tower East

Tower East is a high-rise office building in Shaker Heights, Ohio. At 160 feet (49 m), it is the tallest building in the city. Tower East was the last building in the United States designed by architect Walter Gropius. Gropius designed this building during his tenure with The Architect's Collaborative (TAC).^[2]

Tower East
View from northwest
General information
Status	Completed
Type	office
Address	20600 Chagrin Boulevard
Town or city	Shaker Heights, Ohio
Country	United States
Coordinates	41°27′50″N 81°32′4″W
Estimated completion	1969
Height
Roof	160 feet (49 m)
Technical details
Floor count	12[1]
Floor area	173,087 square feet (16,080.3 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	The Architects' Collaborative, Walter Gropius
Other information
Parking	600 covered spaces, 55 surface spaces[1]

BGK Equities of Santa Fe, New Mexico, purchased the building for $12.68 million in 2000.^[3] In 2015, it was sold to E2G, an affiliate of the Equity Engineering Group, Inc.^[4]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.^[5]