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Name of Property County and State Previous documentation on file (NPS): Bibliography (Cite books, articles, and other sources used in preparing the form on one or more continuation sheets) See continuation sheets Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property County and State NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet The Union Trust Building is located at 36 E. Fourth Street at the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets. Anderson, Probst & White. At the time of construction, the Union Trust Building was the tallest building in The Union Savings Bank and Trust Company building, a seventeen-story fireproof structure, 232 feet high, the tallest in the State of Ohio, is situated at the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets.
Completed January 1, 1901, equipped with six elevators; its hundreds of offices furnished with every modern appliance for convenience and comfort, it stands a massive model of its kind, the home of many and varied industries. From the observation platform, located on This is how the Union Savings and Trust Bank described its new headquarters. The bank was a relatively new venture. Cincinnati business leader, Jacob Schmidlapp formed the bank in 1890 with capital stock of $500,000 established a cigar and whiskey business there. In 1874, Schmidlapp moved his business to Cincinnati and added distillery and malting. Union Savings and Trust was his first venture into banking, though he remained president there from its creation to 1907, and then served as its Chairman of the Board until 1919.?
allowed regular commercial trade along the Ohio River connecting to the Mississippi River and ultimately to Miami Canal followed by the railroad, both providing access to the interior of the state and solidifying Cincinnati's position as the key marketplace in Southern Ohio. In turn, these assets made Cincinnati attractive downtown Cincinnati. At the time, Cincinnati was an important river port, surviving decades of slow growth until the steamboat born in Piqua, Ohio, west of Columbus, in 1849. He apprenticed in dry goods in Memphis, Tennessee and then and a pledge of another $500,000 from the bank's principals.
Schmidlapp, then forty-one-years old, had been "modern" structures, several designed by Burnham, redefining Fourth Street and the financial district of finally in 1931, doubled in size and remodeled, again by Burnham's successor firm, now known as Graham, building, symbolically opened on the first day of the 2o" century, is also notable as the first of a series of The building was designed by the nationally prominent architecture firm, D. H. Burnham & Company for noted significant under Criteria C as a notable example of D. H.Burnham & Company and its successor firm.The History of the Resource: Cincinnati banker, Jacob G. Schmidlapp, and built in 1901 as a speculative office building with ground floor the Gulf of Mexico. Paralleling the technological advances of river transportation was the completion of the 2 "Union Savings Bank" (brochure, n.d.) banking spaces.
In 1914, it was expanded by Burnham's successor firm, Graham, Burnham & Company, and Cincinnati, and its 1931 expansion was the largest development project of that year. The building is locally Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property County and State OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet to immigrants and industrial development. By the 1850s, Cincinnati was one of the most prosperous cities in buildings. Typically these were four to six story buildings often in the Italianate style, such as the Cincinnati Gas-Light and Coke Building (1872), the even more dramatic Federal Building (1874-75) and the Palace Hotel (1882). This style, scale and mass defined the City's core. was D. H. Burnham and Company of Chicago.
At the time, Burnham was one of the most prominent architects nationally. With John Root, Burnham had designed dramatic structures in Chicago, including the ten-story tallest high rise masonry building; 1884-92) and the Masonic Temple, which was thought by some to be the tallest building in the world at the time of its completion in 1892. Even greater national prominence came with his efforts to head the design and construction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Following Beaux facades, greatly influenced both architecture and urban planning in the United States. The building was to be the city's tallest, opening on the first day of the new century. It would replace, and indeed double, the largest building in the City, the six-story c.
1876 Johnston Building, located at the north end was broken in October of the same year, beginning with the demolition of a three-story wood structure at the corner of Fourth and Walnut that housed retail stores, offices and a business college and two adjacent five-story As important as the size was the style. Downtown Cincinnati was characterized largely by the revival Italianate style with Romanesque mixed in. Though many featured cast iron fronts, these buildings read as heavy, masonry structures with roots in historicized design. In contrast, following on the enthusiasm of the Columbian Exposition, Schmidlapp sought to create a bold new modern building in what is now known as the Commercial Style. As described by Marcus Whiffen in American Architecture Since 1780, the notion of the "commercial Cincinnati's 1877 Shillito Store.
The style however gained prominence in Chicago with the works of William LeBaron Jenney, particularly starting with the metal frame Home Insurance Building, built in 1884-85. The Union Trust was the first full example of the style in downtown Cincinnati. In the years that immediately followed the Union Trust, the commercial style took hold particularly in the immediate neighborhood. Following the Trust, Burnham's firm designed the three similarly styled buildings in * Cincinnati Enquirer, January 1.
190l; style" is created by the demand for "light, space, air and strength." Ironically, a major precedent of the style is the century.In real property terms, particularly the downtown saw the rise of substantial office, hotel and retail Montauk Building (1882), the twelve-story Rookery (1888), sixteen-story Monadnock Building (the last and the nation and the sixth largest metropolis in the country.This growth continued well into the second half of With the new building, Schmidlapp set to establish a new paradigm for the city.The architect for the building NPS Form 10-900-a the "White City", as the fair came to be dubbed with its boulevards, gardens and buildings with classical arts principles of design, namely, European Classical Architecture principles based on symmetry and balance, of the block.3 Burnham's designs for the Union Trust Building were first completed on July 13, 1899.
Ground retail buildings.Five hundred workers then spent the next year building Cincinnati''s "first skyscraper."4 Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property County and State NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places the immediate vicinity: Traction Building (101-105 E. Fifth Street; 1902), First National Bank Building (101 E. Fourth Street; 1904), Fourth National Bank (18 E. Fourth Street; 1905). Other architects also embraced the style with the Ingalls Building (6 E. Fourth Street; 1902 by Elzener & Anderson), Mercantile Library Building In the years that followed, Union Savings and Trust grew rapidly, often through acquisition. In 1903, it acquired the Cincinnati Savings Society.
Overcrowding at the bank and continuing demand for downtown office space led Schmidlapp to hire Burnham's successor firm, Graham, Burnham & Company, to design an completing such major commissions as the Field Museum in Chicago, Continental & Commercial Bank also in Chicago, and the Equitable Building in New York. This addition, completed in 1914, added 38 feet to the west end along the Fourth Street façade and ran 94 feet deep, effectively transforming the building from a closed "L" stockholders in one became a stockholder in the other, but maintained separate operations. Fifth Third National Bank of Cincinnati had been created in 1908 by the merger of the Third National Bank and the Fifth National Bank and operated under a national charter. The Union Savings and Trust operated under a state charter; which allowed branch banking.
Under this arrangement, Union Savings and Trust expanded rapidly, acquiring Security Savings Bank and Sate Deposit (1919), Mohawk State Bank (1919), Walnut Hills State Bank (1919), formally merged on February 23, 1927, operating as The Fifth Third Union Trust Company. The new bank surrendered the national charter and operated under the Union Savings state charter. At the time, it was the largest bank in the city with resources of $90 million. Although merging, the banks did not collocate immediately. Fifth Third continued to occupy its offfices at Fourth and Vine. Expansion also continued with the acquisition of the Cosmopolitan Bank and Trust and the four-story buildings of Steinway and Sons Piano Store and Elsa Sterritt Gift Shop (and including the Sweet Clover Lunch Room).
The firm then again hired Burnham's successor firm, now called Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, to design a second addition at the west. By now, the successor firm was established as one of the dominant architecture firms in the first half of the twentieth century. Their reputation grew with the successful completion of the substantial projects underway at In July 1919, Union Savings and Trust and Fifth Third National Bank affiliated by exchanging stocks, such that Burnham's death. Following on Burnham's business and design philosophy, the firm increasingly established Fifth Third History and Expansion, www.53.com; Cincinnati Enquirer, December 25, 1926; May 31, 1932 1911-14 by Cass Gilbert) to name just a few.
Continuation Sheet Court House Savings Bank (1921),Home Savings Bank (1923), Winton Savings Bank (1924) and the First National Bank of Madisonville (1925)- all in a six year time frame. The Union Savings and Fifth Third then (414 Walnut Street, 1910 by Joseph G. Steinkamp and Brother) and Union Central Life (1 W. Fourth Street; Oakley Bank.In 1930, the now Fifth Third Union Trust acquired the two parcels to the west, occupied by the addition at the west end of the building. The architectural firm had continued to prosper after Burnham's death, in form to a front facing "U". Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio County and State OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet itself with large and dramatic commissions.
By the 1920s, it had secured most if not all of the prestigious commissions in the United States, examples being Cleveland's Terminal Tower and Philadelphia's Broad Street The Union Trust addition would be approximately 58 feet in length east and west and mirror the design of the space, the first five floors and basement of the expanded building would be remodeled to serve as a public banking center. The entrances included a dramatic polished deco granite surround with large bronze and glass marble stair that led to the second floor barrel vaulted banking hall surrounded by a mezzanine. The second floor also featured credit, mortgage, and general bookkeeping offices. The mezzanine floor featured the President's office, executive suites and reception room.
The third floor occupied the Fifth Third Securities "The progress of our city and its neighboring communities must increasingly depend upon the today, but it is destined l am sure to become a greater city. The Fifth Third Union Trust Company views this future with assurance that it will be in the years to come as it is now and has communities." E. W. Edwards, President, Fifth Third Union Trust Bank? Through the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Fifth Third Union Trust continued to expand. In 1933, it acquired the Bank and Trust. the space as it planned construction of a new headquarter building north of Fountain Square. The new Fifth Third Building was finished in 1969 and the bank relocated. Shortly after, the building owners modernized the second floor banking hall.
Twenty years later, Bartlett & Company, an investment advisor, acquired the work included exterior cleaning and new anodized aluminum windows. Interior work included upper floor 8 Fifth Third History and Expansion, www.53.com Station. projects in Chicago, including the Wrigley Building and Merchandise Mart. It also increasingly captured major Department and the Director's Room, while the fifth floor was occupied by general banking offices. In the been in the past an important factor in the progress of Cincinnati and its neighboring 7 Cincinnati Enquirer, May 31, 1932. basement were the safe deposit rooms and vaults.Moving day for Fifth Third was May 30, 1932. doors.The first floor was occupied by the savings, travel and foreign departments.It also featured a dramatic Company, along with the bank's statistical offices and advertising offices.
The fourth floor held the Trust Washington Bank and Trust. In 1947, it purchased the Reading Bank.In 1952, it purchased the Cincinnati original building.Construction would take a year.As important as the addition was in providing additional In 1967, Fifth Third Bank sold the Union Trust Building to the Miller Family of Dayton, Ohio and leased back NPS Form 10-900-a 6 Ibid. Name of Property maintenance of ever greater and more complete banking facilities. Cincinnati is a great city building and renamed it "the Bartlett Building". At that time, the building was notably rehabilitated. Exterior Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property County and State OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet corridor remodeling, and updated mechanicals; work also included uncovering and rehabilitating the second floor banking hall which had been covered over in the 1950s. The Union Trust Building is eligible for listing on the National Register under Criteria C as a locally significant work of a master: The Union Trust Building was designed by D. H.
Burnham & Company in 1899, completed in 1900 and opened successor firm, Graham, Burnham & Company, working within the existing design palette to create a nearly seamless extension of the south façade; the façade is distinguished only by variations in brick, stone and terra the end; the distinction in the corridors between new and existing is a slight change in the color and variegation design was completed by the successor firm to Graham, Burnham & Company, Graham, Anderson, Probst and south façade; the façade is distinguished only by variations in brick, stone, and terra cotta hues. This last work first floor lobby and second floor banking hall, the latter seemingly a Burnham trademark. On the upper floors above the fifth, again the corridors were extended such that only slight variations in marble color distinguish the Masonic Temple.
But his commissions spanned the country and included such landmarks as the Flatiron was augmented and advanced by Burnham's leadership in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, particularly its embrace of the principles of European classical architecture. It is unknown how it was that Jacob Schmidlapp came across Burnham. It is entirely possible that Schmidlapp visited the World's Columbian Exposition. With business and family associations in New York City, he may have been familiar with plans for the Flatiron Building. It may be simply that Schmidlapp knew of Burnham's new. Philadelphia, to name a few. He was recognized for building large, and for building tall. The firm's reputation pattern of the marble. In 1931, the building was again expanded westward, this time, three bays. Again, the As noted above, at the time of initial construction, D. H.
Burnham and Company was recognized as one of the works in the nearby competing cities of Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. Regardless, the self-made White. Again, the design worked within the existing design palette to create a nearly seamless extension of the National Register of Historic Places Building in New York, Pennsylvania Station in Pittsburgh, Union Station in Washington, D.C., and the Mills Schmidlapp built his career, one that eventually led to the financial social circles of New York City, on being a also modernized the storefront levels and building entrances and created strong interior spaces that included the buildings. He is best known for his Chicago works as the Montauk, Rookery, Monadock, Reliance, and Building in San Francisco. Work in other cities included Atlanta, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, and most prominent architecture firms in the country.
In Burnham's lifetime, the firm designed over two hundred to the public on January 1, 1901. In 1914, it was expanded westward two bays, designed by Burnham's cotta hues.On the interior, this addition continued the existing upper floor corridors and turned 90 degrees at NPS Form 10-900-a Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio County and State United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet progressive entrepreneur. He was surely attracted to the classical civility of Burnham's "White City" and to the prestige he and his bank would secure by attracting such a nationally prominent architect to Cincinnati? Regardless, in 1899, D. H. Burnham & Company designed the Union Trust Building. It was the firm's first the Johnston Building at Fifth and Walnut.
As a steel framed structure with tripartite design organization, it was to a series of high rise commercial office buildings. Following shortly after were the First National Building (1904), located catercorner, the Traction Building (1902) on block north, and the Fourth National (1905), all ground floor retail. And their concentration and construction transformed the look and feel of Cincinnati's At this time, Burnham's firm was organized around the strengths of senior member Ernest Graham (who was a 40% partner with Burnham), Pierce Anderson, Edward Probst and Howard White (all of whom owned 2.5%). specifications, White oversaw contracts and site supervision and Graham handled office operations. Within Burnham's firm, it is not possible to attribute designs specifically for the Union Trust. Original Anderson, who as noted above headed planning and design.
Throughout the years, Anderson was assisted by a number of talented assistants and it is certainly likely that design tasks were parceled out, with select designers working on the façade and others detailing interior elements. As was typical of large firms, designs were collaborative but never issued without the ultimate approval of the senior management. That being said, one possible designer was Frederick Dinkelberg. He collaborated on the plans of many of the firm's most important designs around the country. He was the façade designer for the 1903 Flat Iron Building importantly, he is known to be associated with the design of the First National Bank of Cincinnati, completed in New York Times, December 19, 1919; New York Times, December 25, 1919. 1º Cincinnati Enquirer, January 1, 1901 in New York, and the 1912 Conway Building in Chicago, and the 1921 Hibernian Bank in New Orleans.
Most work in the city. It was also to be the city's first skyscraper, nearly twice as tall as the current largest building, The Union Trust was the first major project on Fourth Street and its success in design and reputation led quickly In general terms, Anderson headed planning and design, while Probst managed working drawings and 1901, the first day of the 20"h Century. was the Mercantile Library (1905). Others included the Ingalls Building (1902) and the German National Bank OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 (1903), both west on Fourth. All of these designs were strikingly similar -high rise commercial style with designed by Burnham. Across the street to the south was the Mills Building (1903) and across the street east to be the first "modern"building in the city. It was not by accident that the building was to open January 1, 1904.
Dinkelberg was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, studied architecture in Philadelphia and in 1896 opened drawings for the building do not seem to exist, though subsequent expansions have the stamp of Pierce NPS Form 10-900-a Name of Property financial district in a five year window. Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property County and State NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places When Burnham died in 1912, the firm continued to operate D. H. Burnham & Company to finish out the firm's Although the 1914 addition is not insubstantial, the bank seemingly was satisfied with the design and the place architects for the expansion.
A decade and a half later, as Fifth Third Bank and Union Trust sought to expand the building to accommodate combined operations, the successor firm, now called Graham, Anderson, Probst & The early work of Burnham's successor firms were profoundly influenced by his ideas and principles. When Burnham died, he left the firm an active and successful firm with a trained and well-organized staff capable of reputation. The successor firm built on that foundation and as hard as it might seem, by the 1930s, the Federal Reserve Banks. followed by five others" Traction Building (101-105 E. Fifth Street): Completed in 1902, the Traction Building is located on the served as the home of the transit company until 1925 and continues as a speculative office building with ground First National Bank Building (101 E.
Fourth Street): Completed in 1904, the First National Bank Building is located cater-corner from the Union Trust Building and served as the home of the First National Bank for 80 an office there. Shortly, he moved to Chicago and associated with the Burnham firm where remained through Ernest Graham. opposite side of Walnut Street at the end of the block. This narrow Commercial style fifteen-story building designing any contemporary building, hundreds of satisfied clients, a well accepted style and an international his professional career. member), Cleveland's Terminal Group, Koppers Building in Pittsburgh, Filene's in Boston and numerous Burnham Works in Cincinnati: The Union Trust Building was Burnham's first building in Cincinnati. It was the Merchandise Mart, all in Chicago. Elsewhere, projects included the Dime Savings Bank in Detroit, U. S. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1992.
Continuation Sheet projects. Shortly after, it was renamed Graham, Burnham & Company, led by the senior Burnham partner and most prolific firms in the country. Major works include the Field Museum, the Civic Opera Building, and floor retail. of the building in the Cincinnati financial districts.Thus, it is not surprising that Schmidlapp called the original Post Office in Washington, D.C., the Equitable Building in New York (of which Jacob Schmidlapp was a board successor firm had significantly augmented its Burnham heritage.The firm had grown to be one of the largest White, was again the architect. 12 Cincinnati Enquirer, January 1, 1932; May 31, 1932 Chappell, Sally A. Kitt. Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936: Transforming Tradition. Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property County and State OMB Approval No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet years. Today, it features ground floor retail with leased office space above. With tripartite composition in the Fourth National Bank (18 E. Fourth Street): Completed in 1905, the Fourth National Bank is located just to the west of the Union Trust. The 12-story building has been adapted for downtown residential ownership with ground floor retail. Schmidlapp Memorial Library Wing, Cincinnati Art Museum (953 Eden Park Drive): Completed in 1907, the Schmidlapp wing in Eden Park northeast of the city's downtown is a distinct departure from the high rise office structures. The Beaux-Arts classical wing was added to the north of the Cincinnati Art Museum and Burnham's interior plan substantially altered in a 1950s renovation.
East Addition, Alms & Doepke Department Store (222 East Central Parkway): Similarly, the 1912 6-story addition by Burnham to the 1878 Alms & Doepke Department Store stands apart from other works by Burnham in the city. Pale buff brick with a restrained classical trim, the addition stands in stark contrast to the 1878 red Of Burnham's portfolio, the cluster of 4 downtown office structures all located in little more than a block is strong and noteworthy. Similar in design, massing and scale, they play a major role in defining the city's Union Trust represents the first Burnham building and the first "tallest" Burnham building, but truly the sum of stands as Burnham's first work in the city. At the time of construction it was nearly double the size of the commissions within the next couple of years all within a block or two. The building was expanded by Probst & White in the city.
brick structure. The entire complex was renovated for office use in 1995. financial district and assert the city's heritage as a business center in the first decade. Chronologically, the Commercial style, the 19 story building replaced Union Trust as the City's tallest upon completion and tallest building in the city.Its immediate success as speculative office building spawned a number of Conclusion:There is no question of the importance of the Union Trust Building to the City of Cincinnati. It one of largest architectural firms in the country, the Union Trust remains the only work of Graham, Anderson, NPS Form 10-900-a Graham, Burnham & Company; Graham, Anderson, Probst & White Works in Cincinnati: The expanded Union Trust Building additions are the only known examples of work in Cincinnati by each of the Burnham successor firms.
interior bank spaces demonstrate an updated interpretation.While the successor firm continued to grow into National Register of Historic Places the cluster is greater than the individual parts. Burnham's successor firm in 1914 and then again in 1931. The expansion drew from the materials, scale, remained so until 1913. massing and design palette of the original and is largely imperceptible from the original, though the entries and Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Name of Property County and State OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Chappell, Sally A. Kitt. Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936: Transforming Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Cincinnati Post. They Built A City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati.
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Ohio Name of Property County and State OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet VERBAL BOU ANDARY DESCRIPTION The Union Trust Building is situated in the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, State of Ohio, being a part of inlot 164 of said city and being more particularly described as follows: as described and set forth in the Declaration of Condominium Ownership for Fourth and Walnut Building Condominium, and By-Laws and Drawings attached thereto, recorded in Deed Book 4299, pages 656, and BOUNDARY JUSTIFICATION requested. The boundary is the legally recorded boundary lines for the building for which National Register status is being recorded in Plat Book 54,pages 50-61, of the Registered Land Records, Hamilton County, Ohio.
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1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section number _Photo List Page Heritage Photo Direction of view (see Photo List below) Photo # (see photo list below) Exterior, Looking Southwest at East Façade Exterior, Looking Southwest at East Façade Storefronts Exterior, Looking West at East Entry Exterior, Looking Northeast at South Façade Exterior, Looking Northwest at South Facade Storefronts Exterior, Looking North at South Entry Interior, Basement, Lobby, Looking Southwest toward elevators at Southwest corner Interior, First Floor, Lobby, Looking West from East Entry Interior, Second Floor, Banking Hall, Looking West from East Interior, Eleventh Floor, Elevator Lobby, Looking West from East - Typical Interior, Eleventh Floor, East-West Corridor, Looking West from East - Typical Photographs Hamilton County, Ohio Union Trust Building National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Interior, Eleventh Floor, North-South Corridor, Looking North from South - Typical County and State August, 2007 Heritage Consulting Group (1120 NW Northrup Street, Portland, OR 97209) NPS Form 10-900-a 36 East Fourth Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 1901 1914 1931 09-11-06 BARTLETT BUILDING Union Trust Building Hamilton County, oH Site Development Plan Terry-DeRees Associates, Inc.
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Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 119.08 97.27 198.17 124.0 CONDOMINIUM Property Tax Plat Union Trust Building 2.53 30 32 3400 Sanborn, 1934 Fifth Third Union Trust Building Union Trust Building Hamilton County, OH FIFTH- THIRD UNION TRUST BLDG ~0024 H. P. F. S. NEW UNION TRUST BUILDING. THE GIBSON HOUSE. Union Trust Building, c. 1900 Hamilton County, Union Trust Building Union Trust Building UNION TRUST BUILDING, N.W. COR. FOURTH AND WALNUT STREETS. Hamilton OH 1904 Union Trust Building, c. 1914 Union Trust Building Hamilton County, OH c. 1932 Union Trust Building First Floor Banking Space Hamilton County, OH c. 1932 Union Trust Building Hamilton County, OH Second Floor Banking Hall BANKING QUARTERS (1890, 1938) Union Trust Building Hamilton County, OH c.
1960 Union Trust Building Hamilton County, OH Second Floor Banking Hall UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET DATE OF 16TH DAY: 8-29.08ATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: N PERIOD: PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N ABSTRACT/ SUMMARY COMMENTS: DOCUMENTATION see attached comments I/N see attached SLR Y/N TELEPHONE DATE 7/16/08 MULTIPLE PROPERTY DISCIPLINE REVIEWER 8/19/08 NATIONAL: RECOM./CRITERIA NAME: Union Trust Building VACCEPT DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: LESS THAN 50 YEARS: COMMENT WAIVER: N If a nomination is returned to the nominating authority, the nomination is no longer under consideration by the NPS.
08000802 REJECT RETURN OTHER: PDIL: APPEAL: REQUEST; Union Trust Building .Hamilton County, Ohio 411 820 PECZONKA Union Trust Buikding Fres grearfoc Union Trust Building Hamilton Conty, Ohio Union Trust Building OPEN NOW BOLERO Union Trust Builline BUILDING ELEVATORS - FLOORS 6-17 Union Trust Building Hamilton County, Ohio Union Trust Building Hamilton Conty, Ohia Union Trust Building Hamilten County, Ohio DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR COVINGTON QUADRANGLE STATE OF KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY KENTUCKY-OHIO UNITED STATES RECEIVED 2280 July 15, 2008 Ms. Jan Matthews, Associate Director and Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places 1201 "T" (Eye) Street, NW Washington DC 20005 Dear Ms. Matthews: Enclosed please find two (2) new National Register nominations. All appropriate notification Historic Preservation Officer designation has changed.
Notification of this change has been forwarded to the National Park Service concurrent with this transmittal letter. NEW NOMINATION If you have questions or comments about these documents, please contact the National Register staff in the Ohio Historic Preservation Office at (614) 298-2000. State Historic Preservation Officer OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY Ohio Historic Preservation Office 567 East Hudson Street, Columbus, Ohio 43211-1030 ph: 614.298.2000 fx: 614.298.2037 Hamilton Enclosures COUNTY Guernsey National Register Sincerely, www.ohiohistory.org HISTORY Dr. William K. Laidlaw, Jr. OHIO Taylor, Colonel Joseph, House Union Trust Building AT. REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE National Park Service 2280 procedures have been followed for these new submissions. Please note that the Ohio State
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