111 Westminster Street

The Industrial National Bank Building is a disused office building at 111 Westminster Street or 55 Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It was built in 1928 as the Industrial Trust Co. Building, and was designed by the New York firm of Walker & Gillette. At 428 feet (130 m) with 26 floors, it is the tallest building in Providence and the state of Rhode Island, and the 28th tallest in New England; when it was completed it stood several stories higher than the recently finished Biltmore Hotel nearby. Known through the years as the "Fleet Bank Tower", the "Bank of America Building", and, most recently, "111 Westminster", locally it is commonly referred to as the "Superman Building", supposedly because of its visual similarity to the headquarters of the Daily Planet newspaper as represented in The Adventures of Superman TV series of the 1950s. The building has been vacant since Bank of America moved out in April 2013. An estimate in 2016 was that it would take $115 million to rehabilitate the building. Requests for public financing were rejected in 2017. Work began in November 2023 to renovate the building for residential use, with a promised 285 residential units, including 57 affordable units.

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).