Times Building (Huntsville, Alabama)

Times Building
Alternative names	Huntsville Daily Times Building Huntsville Times Building
General information
Type	Commercial office building; educational institution
Architectural style	Art Deco
Address	228 East Holmes Avenue
Town or city	Huntsville, Alabama
Country	USA
Coordinates
Opened	December 1928
Height	125 feet
Technical details
Floor count	12
Floor area	34,000 sq ft (3,200 m2)
Lifts/elevators	2
Design and construction
Architecture firm	R.H. Hunt Co.
Other information
Parking	Street
Times Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Built	1926–28
MPS	Downtown Huntsville MRA
NRHP Reference #	80000726
Added to NRHP	September 22, 1980

The Times Building is one of the oldest and tallest buildings in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. Standing at 125 feet (38 m), the twelve story skyscraper opened in December 1928 as the headquarters for The Huntsville Times. The building, which is primarily used for office space, is located at the intersection of Holmes Avenue and Greene Street on the north side of Downtown Huntsville. In 1980, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Tenants

J. F. Drake State Technical College moved into the basement level of the building in January 2010 with seven classrooms covering 10,000 square feet (930 m²).

History

Originally the building was only to have eleven floors, but a twelfth floor was added during construction when the builder of the Russel Erskine Hotel announced that it would have twelve floors. As a result of the extra floor being added during construction, the elevators do not reach the top floor.

The Huntsville Times occupied the building from the building's opening in 1928 until 1956 when it relocated to a new facility on Memorial Parkway.

From the 1970s until forced to relocate in the late 1980s, the building was home to two public radio stations, WLRH (in the basement) and the commercial radio station WAHR (which billed itself as broadcasting from "The Top of the Times").