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From there, it continues east along the south side of Euclid Avenue, south one block on E. 9th to Prospect Avenue and then back to Euclid, thence east to Playhouse Square. The route returns west along Euclid Avenue's north side, turns north on E. 6th, west on Superior, and around the Key Center block on the north side of Public Square to its point of origin, where the Key Tower (1991), the city's tallest skyscraper, stands alongside the first skyscraper. In a few instances, \"stops\" on the tour are slightly off the route but visible from it. \r\n\r\nAlong the way, be sure not to miss some of downtown's grand interior spaces. You'll find a coffered stained-glass ceiling and fanciful murals in the old banking hall of the Society for Savings, a colorful barrel-vaulted entry hall to Terminal Tower, a pair of beautiful interior passages at the 5th Street Arcades, a massive banking lobby that now houses the Marble Room restaurant, a soaring 60-foot-high Tiffany-style stained-glass dome and murals painted by an artist who died aboard the Titanic in the old Cleveland Trust rotunda (now Heinen's supermarket), a semicircular lobby with a bust of Marcus Hanna inside the Hanna Building, WPA murals in Cleveland Public Library, and fanciful brass gargoyles lining the glass atrium inside the Arcade—arguably the city's crown jewel.</p>","postscript_text":"","tour_img":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/fullsize/a6b8cacafa92572cee6cb4cbe4fb47b3.jpg","items":[{"id":305,"title":"Society for Savings Building","latitude":41.50065870425100200691304053179919719696044921875,"longitude":-81.69419031326600588727160356938838958740234375,"thumbnail":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/square_thumbnails/a6b8cacafa92572cee6cb4cbe4fb47b3.jpg","fullsize":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/fullsize/a6b8cacafa92572cee6cb4cbe4fb47b3.jpg","subtitle":"Cleveland's First Skyscraper","address":"127 Public Square, Cleveland, OH","custom":{"subtitle":null,"text":null}},{"id":789,"title":"Standard Building","latitude":41.50087935919899706505020731128752231597900390625,"longitude":-81.6953042149540351601899601519107818603515625,"thumbnail":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/square_thumbnails/a6e8224f8218548bc297cde3527eca53.jpg","fullsize":"https://clevelandhistorical.org/files/fullsize/a6e8224f8218548bc297cde3527eca53.jpg","subtitle":"Warren S. 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