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Gray & Pape identified more than one thousand buildings constructed between 1945 and 1970 in Ohio. Consequently, the following discussion provides only an overview of the resource types, architectural styles, and architects, developers, and planners important to Ohio’s recent past built environment.
The bank was designed by noted Columbus architecture firm Richards, McCarty & Bulford in the Neoclassical style. The bank’s directors wanted to build an exclusive bank building that resembled the Ohio Statehouse nearby. The building is made of brick and faced entirely in stone.
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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...
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Like other cities, it has lost some architectural gems along the way, but this two-mile, self-guided walking tour loop curates surviving examples from every phase of downtown's evolution, including a 19th-commercial block, neoclassical public buildings, formative Chicago-style skyscrapers, splendid hotels, department stores, and arcades, and ...
Nov 7, 2019 · Located in downtown Cleveland’s Nine-Twelve District, the Cleveland Trust Company Building is a beautiful mix of Beaux-Arts, Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival architectural styles. It was constructed in 1907 to serve as the headquarters of the Cleveland Trust Company.
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Jun 12, 2015 · This beauty, first excavated in 1869 and preserved in 1920, is the largest burial mound in the Eastern United States. mikroman6/Moment via Getty Images. This massive structure contains a whopping 54,000 cubic yards of earth, plus a supposed several generations of ancient Ohioans.
