Col. Lloyd Venture Millinery & Automata Co. Building
VenTech Tower was originally known as the Col. Lloyd Venture Millinery & Automata Co. Building, and it still bears a plaque with that title at the main entrance. Under Colonel Lloyd Venture's stewardship it was the site of The Great Venture Millinery Fire of 1907, a deadly blaze that began in the attic when a dumpster full of felt straps was struck by a zeppelin.
Venture Industries World Headquarters
During Jonas Venture Sr.'s lifetime the building was Venture Industries World Headquarters. During this part of its history the tower resembled the Pan Am Building from the 1960s.[1]
Following his divorce from Sally Impossible, Richard Impossible became an unhinged recluse and his business fell into disrepair. During this time period the building served as the headquarters for The Revenge Society, which Richard Impossible had joined after Phantom Limb reached out to him.[3]
Dean Venture initially lived in the VenTech Tower following his family's relocation from Colorado to New York, but moved out to live in the on-campus dormitories at Stuyvesant University after being accepted as a student there. JBot served the family before H.E.L.P.eR. pushed him off the tower. Sergeant Hatred mans the front desk as security while Brock has his own room.
Throughout Season 6, the VenTech tower sustained major damage from multiple attacks from the many villains looking to arch Venture. Wide Whale in particular blasted a massive hole in the front lobby when he attacked the building. The hole is where Haranguetan fell to his death, and his wife Battleaxe and Think Tank also fell in, but survived.
In Season 7, his penthouse began to have problems, as he believed it was hackers, while his family and Brock thought it was possessed. With the help of Dr. Orpheus and The Order of the Triad, the Problem machine that had been on his father's Gargantua-1 space station that JJ had recovered and installed in the building was revealed to have the disembodied head of his father Jonas Venture Sr.. Rusty was shocked to learn that his father was really alive and just in a comatose state. After Pete White had attacked the machine, Jonas began to destroy the building. During Arrears in Science, Rusty begged his father to not destroy the building. After he was calmed by The Blue Morpho, who appeared seeking Jonas. Rusty had learned the truth about the Problem Machine and Jonas through Team Venture and was angry at not being told the whole time. Rusty spoke to his father for the first time in twenty years through his wrist watch and the latter wanted him to clone a new body for him after he takes Vendata's body as a temporary substitute to which Rusty refused. Rusty and the Monarch were launched in the air by Jonas who was fighting the The Blue Morpho and witnessed the Jonas and the Morpho destroy each other. Effectively watching his father die for the second time.
After that incident, between repairing the building from the damage Jonas caused it, its falling stock price and lack of investor confidence due to the fact that Rusty had not invented or had done anything useful, VenTech was facing financial ruin. After Rusty had invented a teleportation device, The Guild sent a team to sneak into the building to steal it, successfully doing so. They then used the teleportation device to kidnap Venture and send their forces to attack the building and Brock.
In Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart, the building is sent into outer space by Mantilla through her remote controlling the Helper Pods to act as gravitational devices. When Dr. Mrs. Monarch convinces Mantilla to turn off the Helper Pods, the VenTech begins to rapidly fall back to Earth, acting as a meteor like projectile threatening to cause major damage to the surface. General Hunter Gathers threatens to destroy the building, but Rusty using Ventronic and with help from the Hover-Quarters, manage to safely bring it down right over the old Venture Compound.
Location and Facilities
VenTech Tower employs a Security and Support Staff (including Sergeant Hatred and The Pirate Captain). The Tower features a residential area for Dr. Venture and his family that includes an aircraft landing pad and a rooftop patio with swimming pool. The building also houses Research & Development facilities, a reception area, conference rooms, and a spacious lobby featuring a Venture family history museum.
VenTech Tower is located across the street from Tophet Tower, the headquarters of the villain Wide Wale. Occupants of the two buildings can easily see each other though binoculars, telescopes, or other observational devices.
The six-story base of the Hearst Tower was commissioned by William Randolph Hearst and awarded to the architect Joseph Urban. The restored base of the Col. Lloyd Venture Millinery & Automata Co. Building at the bottom of the modern VenTech Tower is a reference to this.
The Great Venture Millinery Fire of 1907, which took place at VenTech Tower when it was still the Col. Lloyd Venture Millinery & Automata Co. Building, is a parody of the real life Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City.
