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Vern Riffe State Office Tower
Etymology	Vern Riffe
General information
Type	Office
Location	77 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio
Coordinates	39°57′37″N 83°00′03″W / 39.9603°N 83.0008°W / 39.9603; -83.0008
Completed	1988
Height
Roof	503 ft (153 m)
Technical details
Floor count	32
Floor area	102,192 m (1,099,990 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	NBBJ
Website
das.ohio.gov/Divisions/General-Services/Properties-and-Facilities/Riffe

The Vern Riffe State Office Tower is a 503 ft-tall (153 m) skyscraper on Capitol Square in downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was completed in 1988 and has 32 floors. NBBJ designed the building, which is the fifth-tallest in Columbus, and has 102,192 m of floor area. An earlier concept for the site, also designed by NBBJ, would have included a site to the west of the present location, and would have effectively closed off South Wall Street north of West State Street. The building was named for Vernal G. Riffe, Jr, who served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1975 to 1994. The complex also contains the 854-seat Capitol Theatre.

The project was completed for $130 million.

The working office of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is located on the building's 30th floor.

In 2023, several Republican members of Ohio's House of Representatives proposed renaming the Vern Riffe Center, removing the Democratic House speaker's name from the building. The proposal would rename the structure in honor of Tawnya Salyer, who lost her footing while helping construct the building in 1988 and died from the fall.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Columbus, Ohio

References

1. "Riffe". das.ohio.gov. Retrieved 2015-09-26.
2. "Contact Us". State of Ohio. Retrieved April 16, 2020.
3. "The Columbus Dispatch Subscription Offers, Specials, and Discounts". Archived from the original on 2023-06-29.

External links

• Media related to Vern Riffe State Office Tower at Wikimedia Commons
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