One Main Place (Dallas)

One Main Place
One Main Place in 2006
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General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office Building/Hotel
Architectural style	Modern Movement: International Style, New Formalism
Address	1201 Main Street, Dallas, Texas
Country	United States
Coordinates	32°46′50″N 96°48′08″W
Construction started	1964 (1964)
Completed	1968 (1968)
Opening	1968
Height
Roof	445 ft (136 m)
Technical details
Floor count	33
Grounds	2.4 acres (0.97 ha)
Design and construction
Architecture firm	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Developer	One Main Place Corporation
Structural engineer	Walter P. Moore
Other designers	Gordon Bunshaft, Harwood K. Smith and Partners
Main contractor	The Beck Group
Website
One Main
One Main Place
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Dallas Landmark
NRHP reference No.	15000245
DLMK No.	H/150
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 15, 2015
Designated DLMK	July 1, 2017

One Main Place is a mixed-use skyscraper hotel and office building at 1201 Main Street in Dallas, Texas. The building rises 445 ft (136 m). It contains 33 above-ground floors, and was completed in 1968. One Main Place currently stands as the 27th-tallest building in the city. The architectural firm that designed the building was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which also designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center in Chicago and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Gordon Bunshaft was the lead designer of One Main Place, and a few of his notable buildings include Lever House in New York, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

Originally conceived in the 1950s by the Dallas, Texas, Corporation to become Dallas's first Superblock, the building's 30,000-sq-ft footprint occupies only a third of the 2.4-acre property, almost a full city block. To the east and west of the property, recessed plazas provided tenants with access to the exterior without the intrusion of automobiles. The 1.1 million-sq-ft building includes five subsurface levels tied to the Dallas Pedestrian Network and a 700-space parking garage. Excavation work on the project began in 1965 and construction was completed in 1968. Following completion, One Main was immediately sold to Equitable Life Insurance Company. Subsequent owners included RREEF and RAK Group. Today, New Orleans–based KFK Group owns the building known as "One Main".

In 2015, a large portion of the building was converted to a hotel, the Westin Dallas Downtown. Opened in December 2015, the hotel has an entrance on the ground floor, while the second floor of the building houses the hotel's public rooms, with the lobby in the former banking hall, as well as a restaurant and a bar. The third floor houses convention facilities. The top 10 floors of the building have been converted to hotel rooms, leaving 10 floors of offices. The 32nd floor houses a pool and the Westin Workout Studio overlooking Main Street.

In popular culture

Lobby and exteriors of the building were used in location filming and for establishing shots in seasons two and three of the original night-time drama Dallas. In the show, the building housed the offices of Cliff Barnes during his tenure as head of the fictional Office of Land Management.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas
• List of Dallas Landmarks
• List of tallest buildings and structures in Dallas

External links

• One Main Place official website
• The Westin Dallas Downtown official website
• One Main Place on Emporis^[usurped]
• One Main Place on SkyscraperPage
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