 It was designed by New York architect Henry Bacon and was called elegant yet refined in its detailing of its white terra cotta facade.The Halle Building is the third tallest building in the Cleveland Theater District after the 1921-built 272 foot Keith Building and the 1991-built 210 foot Renaissance Centre.When the flagship store expanded in 1927, TIME praised the business for helping to turn the city of Cleveland into a more metropolitan city and compared Halle's to Lord & Taylor, B. Altman & Co., R.H. Stearns, Marshall Field & Co., Bullock's, and Maison Blanche.