16 East Broad Street is a building in Columbus, Ohio. Completed in 1900, the building stands at a height of 180 feet (55 m), with 13 floors. It stood as the tallest building in the city until being surpassed by 8 East Broad Street in 1906.
From 1927 to 1939, the eleventh floor of the building served as the office for the National Football League. Joseph F. Carr, a Columbus native, was president of the NFL at the time.
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“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
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