There were many who wished, to no avail, to incorporate the Tyler façade into the walls of the new convention center. The whole block became a concrete block-house without a door or a window around most of its perimeter. The new building, archtiecturally fashionable for the time, could have easily been mistaken for a prison. |
The Tyler Block The Tyler Block was built in the 1870s to house 10 shops behind a single Renaissance front. In this 1974 photograph, the Tyler Blocks still stands just days before its demolition. In the foreground is the rubble of the block that was to become the Hyatt.
The Tyler Block in 1931 |
