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a delicious history. The Strietmann Biscuit Company built the original Strietmann building in 1899 along the south side of W. Twelfth Street and adjacent to the Miami and Erie Canal. The company expanded its production and acquired in 1909, 1910, and 1919, the adjacent property along W. Twelfth Street to accommodate its growth. “ “built its ...
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Plum Street Temple [photo] 720 Plum St (45202) The Jewish temple at 8th and Plum Streets has been sitting firmly in place for 150 years. Isaac Mayer Wise, the man who shares his namesake with the temple, was a prominent rabbi before the Civil War. Seeing a need to grow his congregation, the lot where the building currently stands was purchased and ...
Shillito's Department Store [photo] 151 W 7th St (45202) John Shillito started his department store business in 1832. By the 1870s, he was ready to expand beyond his 4th Street store. Renowned architect James W. McLaughlin, who designed the old public library and the Art Museum among many others, was contracted to build Shillito's new multi-story d...
The Palace Hotel [photo] 601 Vine St (45202) In 1882, master architect Samuel Hannaford built the Palace Hotel at the northwest corner of 6th and Vine. It featured 300 rooms with a shared bathroom on every floor and myriad modern-at-the-time amenities, including strategically placed hitching posts in the front of the building. To top it all off wit...
Cincinnati's City Hall [photo] 801 Plum St (45202) Samuel Hannaford won a contest for the contract to build the new City Hall on the site of the old one at 8th and Plum Streets in the late 1880s. His plans outlined a Richardsonian Romanesque building of massive proportions featuring ornamentation around the facade and cornered with an iconic 9-stor...
The Union Trust Building [photos] 36 E 4th St (45202) Famed Chicago architect Daniel Burnham came to our city to build Cincinnati's first skyscraper, the neoclassical 19-story Union Savings Building on the northwest corner of 4th and Walnut Streets for the Union Trust Company. J. G. Schmidlapp, a well-known financier of the building project, recoun...
The Union Central Tower [photo] 1 West 4th St (45202) When the former Chamber of Commerce building was demolished, Cass Gilbert, the architect who designed countless buildings across the US including the Woolworth Building in NYC, designed the Union Central Tower on the southwest corner of 4th and Vine for the company of the same name. Garber and W...
The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Building [photo] 139 E 4th St (45202) The first gaslights were lit in 1843 at the corner of 4th and Main Streets by the precursor of what would later become Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company. Their business boomed, consolidating electric companies in the years to come and garnering a good reputation for their services....
The Cincinnati Times-Star Building [photo] 800 Broadway (45202) By the late 1920s, the Times-Star newspaper needed more space than their 6th and Walnut Streets offices offered, so a new Art Deco tower at the corner of 8th and Broadway Streets was planned. Samuel Hannaford & Sons received the commission to design and construct the building. The owne...
The Terrace Plaza Hotel[photo]15 W 6th St (45202) On July 16th, 1948, developer John J. Emery proclaimed the newly opened Terrace Plaza Hotel on the southwest corner of 6th and Vine Streets would never again be closed to the public. Under the direction of architect Louis Skidmore and senior designer Natalie de Blois, the Terrace Plaza Hotel was an ...
The Cincinnati Public Library [photo] 800 Vine St (45202) John W. McLaughlin, who constructed the Shillito's Building from the 1870s, went on to build a gorgeous public library (originally intended to be an opera house by another architect) on Vine Street in 1874. The library was legendary in its beauty and was used by countless Cincinnatians durin...
Dec 22, 2015 · When you look at the growth of restaurants over the last 10 years in the 45202 ZIP code, the Vine Street district tells the most compelling story of change. Non-profit developer orchestrated changes
Mar 22, 2016 · From "Illustrated Cincinnati," by D.J. Kenny; published by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 1875; digitized by the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. Today, many Cincinnatians still shed tears for the glorious old Public Library on Vine Street south of Seventh: “Then, passing through a large and handsome delivery-room, the ...
Feb 3, 2020 · Current Use: Clifton branch, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Architectural Style: Châteauesque sandstone. Significance: One of 20 local homes designed by Samuel Hannaford between 1862 and 1896, these mansions dotted emerging suburban villages like Clifton, Price Hill, and Northside. Built for George “Boss” Cox, Cincinnati ...
Jun 16, 2016 · “They did a poll on TV and it was like 94 to 6 against moving it but we did it anyway.” Inspired by New York’s Bryant Park, the $48 million makeover was completed in 2006 to general acclaim.
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Apr 20, 2021 · River Road, at 11.4 miles, is the longest street in Cincinnati, followed by Reading Road at 8.1 miles. Vine Street places third at 7.6 miles, followed by Eastern Avenue at 7.2 miles. Although, if you Google “longest street in Cincinnati,” top results somehow claim it’s Vine. Fresh from the foundry, the statue of assassinated President ...
