Pack often served as the go-between in these types of investments so that wealthy investors wouldn't be gouged once sellers knew the identity of the purchaser.

[28] The third accident resulted in a fatality, when workman William Crouch died after being struck in head by falling debris on August 25.

[37] However, in 1991 historian Jan Cigliano Hartman called the building a mix of Beaux-Arts, Neoclassical, and Renaissance Revival styles.

[43] Each of the upper floors was constructed with a concrete base, on top of which were placed brick and red tile arched supports.

[43] Some time in 1906, the Cleveland Trust Company hired sculptor Karl Bitter to design and carve an appropriate work for the triangular tympanum over the Euclid Avenue entrance.

[51][52][c] The work was considered a turning point in Bitter's career, when he matured from an over-reliance on classicism and began developing his own style.

[12] The Cleveland Trust Company asked Post to design an interior that was simple, a concept in line with the idea that a savings bank is about economy.

[40] Some sources claim that the stained glass was designed and manufactured by Louis Comfort Tiffany and his firm in New York City.

[59] The interior walls of the rotunda were finished in white marble and bronze capitals, light fixtures, railings, and other elements.

[13] An elaborate molded plaster frieze depicting bags of money, attorney's seals, and keys also ran around the inside of the drum.

[34] The first floor contained executive offices, tellers' windows, and a parlor where only women customers were permitted,[32][30] to allow them to do their banking in private.

The middle circle was a 6-foot (1.8 m) wide access corridor, framed by walls of building tile (a predecessor to concrete block).

The access corridor contained conduits, ducts, and pipes for the heating, mechanical, and ventilation systems of the building.

[70] Then a full-size "cartoon" (black and white line drawing) of the sketch was put in place in the tympanum to ensure that the design worked visually.

[70][71] After adjusting the design as needed,[70] Millet sketched and then painted 13 smaller versions of the murals, each of them about 18 inches (46 cm) in height and 3 to 4 feet (0.91 to 1.22 m) in width.

[72][g] Work on the draft paintings at Millet's Forest Hill studio in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was under way by at least late March 1909.

[75][76] During this time, they were viewed by President William Howard Taft, various officials of the federal government, and members of the diplomatic corps.

[79] Titled The Development of Civilization in America, the paintings include: "The Norse Discoverers", "The Puritans", "Exploration By Land", "LaSalle on Lake Erie", "Father Hennepin at Niagara Falls", "Exploration By Water", "Migration", "Buying Land From the Indians", "Surveying the Site of Cleveland", "Felling the Timber", "Building the Log Cabin", "Plowing the Clearing", and "Gathering the Harvest".

[81] A pneumatic tube system ran throughout the Cleveland Trust Company Building, connecting tellers to bookkeepers and each department.

[84] The exterior of the Cleveland Trust Company Building became increasingly dirty in its first 55 years, but calls by the news media to clean the structure were largely ignored by the bank.

[40] The flooring and arched supports on the upper levels were removed, and replaced with 1.5-inch (3.8 cm) Styrofoam blocks which were covered with a thin layer of concrete.

The marble floor was retained,[46] as were the embossed bronze brackets, and all gold leaf and gilt inside the rotunda repaired and cleaned.

Their concept, revealed in June 2007, proposed a 15-story glass-enclosed tower that would isolate the Cleveland Trust Company Building on the corner.

[106] In February 2016, Judge Patricia Cosgrove ruled that the county had waited too long to bring its complaint under a state statute of limitations law.

[107] In December 2012, Cuyahoga County announced that it had signed an agreement with the Geis Cos. of Streetsboro, Ohio, regarding the Cleveland Trust complex of buildings.

Over the next two weeks, Geis agreed to not demolish the Oppmann Garage, but the P & H Buildings just south of the Trust Tower (at the corner of E. 9th Street and Prospect Avenue).

[42] The Geis Co. won $26.9 million ($35,185,200 in 2023 dollars) in tax credits from the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office to assist in renovating the buildings.

[42] Architect John Williams of Process Creative Studios of Cleveland oversaw the renovation of the rotunda and the Swetland Building's first floor into Heinen's.

[67] On the second floor, the intricate bronze railing was retained, and the cast terrazzo cloakroom counter was repurposed for use by the wine shop.

On the first floor are service counters and cold storage units for serving fish, meat, poultry, and prepared food.