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Nomination for Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,432 words across 15 pages, filed in 1980. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 80003035, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

The nomination, in full

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. No. 4. Present Name(s) HAM. COUNTY 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives The Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company 6. Specific Location Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories 3, 29. Basement? Yes X 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 31. Wall Construction 19. Architect or Engineer HUNT ST. 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays 21. Original Use, If apparent 34. Wall Treatment 22. Present Use 35. Plan Shape rectangular 23. Ownership 36. Changes Private S Altered a 9. Coordinates in #42) Moved O if known 37. Condition U.T.M. Reference The Alms and Doepke Co. 25. Open to Preservation Structure D Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization 11. On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes O District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 15. Name of Established District 41.

Distance from and 102.5' X 394' 42. Further Description of Important Features This elongated municipal building was built in four stages for the on the southwestern corner of this complex, was built in 1878 and is 43. History and Significance The Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company was founded on August 15, 1865, by William H. Alms, and Canal (present day Central Parkway). The Alms and Doepke Store added three major 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings Located on the north side of Central Parkway and across from the Hamilton County Courthouse. From 1827 - 1928 the Miami and Erie Canal occupied the site of Central Parkway. 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by Personal observation Organization The Architectural Record 38 (July 1915). Date 49. Revision Date(s) Side stone 11/78 restricted Register? Front Site Cincinnati Underway? Over-the-Rhine Long.

Zone Exterior good brick Flat Northing Endangered? Cincinnati Historic Inventory. Commercial HAM-2231-4 Ohio Historical Center Frontage on Road August,. Easting OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Interior Miami Purchase Association Alms and Doepke Building dry goods merchants Ohio Historic Preservation Office Steve Gordon and the Miami Purchase Assoc. 222 East Central Parkway Cincinnati City Planning Comm. (Explain floors are checkerboard like corbels and semi-elliptical arches Public Road? James Griffith and Son Frederick H.Alms,and William F.Doepke.In 1867,the business moved to the present site. LOURTHOUSE PKWY. 3 15 1878, 1886, 1890, 1906 8. Site Plan with North Arrow S. Hannaford, D.H. Burnham & Co municipal and legal offices Addition & 24. Owner's Name & Address. Building X Hamilton County Courthouse, Book 75, Page 4, Parcels 240-251.

No X By 1878 the firm opened their first dry goods building on the northeast corner of Main St. Mansard/slate/Flat Eligible? MPAHP common and stretcher 1890,1906 32.Roof Type& Material 1878, bays are 17 Corinthian pilasters.Separating the third and fourth 1715270 1886, 27. (continued) Master's Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1977. and designed by Samuel Hannaford, is seven (7) stories in height and quite sympathetic ta the southeastern black, built in 1906 and designed by Daniel H. Hurnham & Company, is six stories 36. The exterior of the first floor was drastically altered in 1972. Hunt Street. By 1891, the form employed 800 and was called the "great representative whole- Elstner & Co., 1888. West fazade, Looking South and east facades 1886 wing on left. 1906 wing designed by D. H. Burnham & Co. mentation. Hannaford's Looking northwest.

surmount the fourth floor bays.Above a heavily bracketed cornice is a broken Mansard roof offices, traffic courts, and police operations.The interior was remodeled in 1969. in height and Neo-Classical in detail:It is basically a functional building with modest orna- buildings to the original store in 1886,1890,and 1906 plus an annex on the north side of Cincinnati: The Queen City of the West.New York:Acme Publishing Co., 1891. pilasters.A large addition was built on the Hunt Street side of the building in 1890.The sale dry goods house of the west and south."The firm manufactured, among other items, coats, suits, underwear, shirts, aprons, furs, and awnings. The retail complex occupied the entire that exhibits numerous dormers and projecting pavilions. Wrought iron balconies, brick corbels establishment closed its doors on August 18, 1955.

Today the building is used for municipal Leonard, John W. Centennial Review of Cincinnati, One Hundred Years. Cincinnati: J.M. original building.except it has a larger cornice and flat roof.It also exhibits Corinthian THE ALMS AND DOEPKE BUILDING BUILT: 1886 Height: Architect: Daniel H. Burnham CENTRAL PARKWAY 8970 8251 5525 17,034 HUNT STREET 6 stories 167' 5 stories 138' 223' 102' D. H. BURNHAM & CO., ARCHITECTS. 1908. SOURCE: ALMS AND DOEPKE DEPARTMENT shown in repeated enlargemients of their premises in order to secure lots, ineluding the Kestner & Mathews Packing Houses, and the old house occupied by Alms & Doepke, and when the executor's sale Wm. F. Doepke, Wm. H. Alms, Wm. Sandan, and James Burdsal, and took place the entire property was purchased by Messrs. Alms & Doepke, who erected thereon a large and substantial building.

mous proportions, yet it was steadilr increasing, and the firm felt for conducting the dry goods trade upon the most approved basis. it necessary to make adequate provision for the future, and to this They exercise soundest judgment, marked executive capacity, and of America, and of which the Queen City justly feels a sense of pride, while its operations are of such direct value to the community. their prineipal building and storeroom by bridges from the fifth and worth Street. - Though only established in 1887, Mr. Brooke set to work to complete their premises on the original scale of inngni- west, emploring a large number of hands, and having four buildings. 50x100 feet, and his capacity is fire thousand inches of the rest of the premises five stories. while in the Hunt Street ware- Acme Publishing Co., 1891.

business that he ships to points in twenty-nine different states ests here centred in one mighty whole-the model dry goods house the utmost skill in the organization and guidance of the vast inter- ILLUSTRATEDO now possesses the largest factory or works of the kind in the with the previously purchnsed Ryan pork house property,they then in the second floor of the building they were in; the following year las but few travelling snlesmen,yet its sales Iast year were over roted to the wholesale trade; and the seventh floor to wholesale park- wear, aprons, etc., also of the most elegant fur garments from choic- Their establishment is a mammoth emporium of the dry goods they built a new one-storg building in the rear; and six months nf- Ieginnings to the tremenlous proportions described, and though it end desired to purchase a lot on Main Street, 6ix85 feet in size, owneil 50x150 feet on the north side of Hunt Street, which they connected to INLEY S.

BROOKE. White Enamelled Letters, No. 67 Long- chased an adjoining building from C. Klein & Co., for $15,000, and tude and convenience. The main building is seven stories in height. ALMS mills and seventy-five dies, and such is rhe extent and growth of his SOURCE: Cincinnati; The Queen City of the West.New York: about S10,000,and opened a small store on Main Street opposite INGINNATI 9 TAE QUEEN THE ALM8 & DOEPKE CO. 1893. 330 SOURCE: KENNY'S NEW ILLUSTRATED CINCINNATI. Main, Canal and Hunt Streets. for 1882. The Cincinnati Business Directory SOURCE: ALMS & DOEPEE, Importers, Jobbers and Retail Dealers of Dry Goods, Carpets, eto., State OH- Hamilton ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory _ National Register Write-up Entered - OTHER HAER KEEPER CONTROL TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back Maps HISTORIAN MAR Re-submit REVIEW UNIT BRANCH CHIEF Federal Register Entry Photos l2g fouers, ete.

REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO N Working Number 1/-15- 79 277G NOV 1 5 1979 MAR 3 Steve Gordon August, 1978 Miami Purchase Association Building #51 West & south facades, looking northeast Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford NOV 1 5 1979 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio MAR 3 1980 Steve Gordon Building #51 Miami Purchase Association Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford South & east facades, looking northwest August, 1978 Photograph # 121/12 9 60 60 250 Renegade ALLRIGHT AUTO PARK MAR 3 Miami Purchase Association Alms & Doepke Building Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Steve Gordon West facade, looking east Building #51 Photograph # August, 1978 NOV 1 5 1979 122/129 August, 1978 North facade (on alley), looking east MAR Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Miami Purchase Association Steve Gordon Building #51 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Alms & Doepke Building Photograph # Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000626