Nowhere was Harrisburg's metropolitan status better exemplified than in this soaring Art Deco tower that looked to New York City sources, most particularly John Mead Howells's Panhellenic Hotel of 1927–1930. A stepped French limestone base rises into the brick shaft that is crowned with a setback top in the manner of the New York setback law but without the subtlety. The hotel closed in 1968 and was adapted as an office tower with a bank as the prime tenant; at that time the lower levels were reclad in white marble, but the soaring tower survives.