Nomination for Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation

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OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 JUL 2 1987 1. Name and or common street & number ~city, town State - county - public - unoccupied X building(s) x private - work in progress * yes: restricted - yes: unrestricted X industrial 4. Owner of Property N/A vicinity of 5. Location of Legal Description - yes Location Category both museum date Accessible None government Status commercial structure educational object Public Acquisition code entertainment Ownership transportation religious federal military district other: Inventory-Nomination Form private residence Cincinnati site agriculture historic local park 1507 Dana Avenue Coca-Cola Bottling Works date entered Ohio Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation National Park Service Present Use Type all entries-complete applicable sections 3.

Classification scientific National Register of Historic Places being considered Court and Main Streets See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms United States Department of the Interior (3-82) received MAY 22 1987 in process depository for survey records 6. Representation in Existing Surveys 9933 Alliance Road For NPS use only NPS Form 10-900 achas this property been determined eligible? F & W Publications, Inc. title N/A not for publication - vicinity of courthouse, registry, of deeds, etcHamilton County Courthouse X no 7. Description -x excellent _ deteriorated - unaltered X altered _ moved date _ unexposed see below. steel, brick, and concrete structure faced with Indiana It. Here the Bottling Area and Warehouse #1were used for the the lobby, offices, and Bottling Area, there is a basement of building has over 150,000 sq. ft.

The driveway, entering from Dana Avenue at the north side of the building, circles at a lower level, and then runs back Moderne stylistic details, a central three-story fluted shaft shaft rises over the rest of the two-story front portion, and two sash. Only the operable sash remains on both floors, but some of the glass block will be replaced during the rehabilitation. On the second floor, the horizontal band of windows is interrupted Exterior Condition addition, fair ruins Check one metal canopy under four narrow full-story soft green window The central shaft with the main entrance is flanked by two- reached from the executive offices at each end of the building. the fluting and trimmed with aluminum symmetrical designs.The Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

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39,6oo sq.ft.that has concrete columns with flared caps that glass blocks. ata higher tier to the two-story west facade.Featuring Art parapet.There is no decorated entry on the south side of the by small outdoor terraces at the front corners which can be Incorporated into the north side, which faces Dana Avenue, Warehouse #2 with 26,000 sq.ft.,was added in 1967 and is chevron design in the top half.Protecting the doorway is a offices.The middle is a one-story brick portion of 62,0o0 sq. enframement ofverde marble for the aluminum double doors with The Coca Cola Bottling Corp.of Cincinnati at 1507 Dana partially hidden by large shrubs and trees.All together, the that rise the full two stories to terminate ina waterfall -x-original site assembly line, storage, and truck unloading facilities. Under support the concrete slab floor.

The rear portion, called YAM distinct areas.The front is an imposing Art Moderne two-story on each floor.The continuous horizontal bands of windows stages of step-backs end with a circular top ringed with square story wings that have horizontal bands of metal encased windows panels of cast bronze and cast aluminum.The panels are cut into contains the main entrance.At the limestone steps another smaller entrance is decorated with vertical fluted panels Limestone.It has 21,6o0 sq.ft.which contains a lobby and good NPS Form 10-900-e OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Coca- Cola Bottling_Corporation, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH Section number .

two story red brick portion, but three rows of light colored brick run between floors and a stone coping tops the roofline to strengthen the horizontal lines The middle part, the one story brick warehouse and industrial portion with Avenue, eleven bands of light colored brick and a row of small windows enliven ventilation. The rear part, the 1967 addition, does not detract from the 1938 signed by JOHN HOLMER, JR., 1938, a local Cincinnati artist, is believed to Interior Page shaft. Continuation Sheet building. round smoke stack which rises almost four stories.

Two connecting semi-circular staircases with marble steps and brass railings At the bottom of the two semi-circular staircases are curved free-standing hand-painted mural shows various scenes of people enjoying drinking bottles of circular entrance lobby is the most spectacular room in the building with its National Register of Historic Places the red brick flat surface.A one story extension used as a water treatment tracks, a concrete loading dock runs along the side of the entire one story The entrance into the three story central shaft leads into a two story open swirl along the outside walls of the shaft's first two stories where a (8-86) second flight,lamps at each post on either side have three glass disks.The landing where the two semi-circular flights of stairs join to form a single terrazzo floor and paneled walls of marlite marble and marlite olive wood.

area is also partially hidden by large shrubbery and the slope of the hillside of this Art Moderne building. Also on this side of the building is a brick shops, and at work breaks. Track. Other segments show people drinking Coca-Cola under umbrellas, in soda black lacquered wood tables that match the curve in the stairways. At the Juxtaposed against these views are scenes of men mural has natural lighting from the four long narrow windows in the central down to the driveway from Dana Avenue.On the south side along the railroad Coca-Cola at Cincinnati's Old Coney Island,Sunlite Pool,and River Downs Race brick section that has large metal sash industrial windows that swing open for have had no changes since it was painted. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH Section number - wing lead into an auditorium, built for public use.

The doors have waterfall In the one story portion of the plant, the Bottling Works, Warehouse #1, and Page Continuation Sheet windows and doors throughout the two story portion, the offices themselves are Warehouse #2 are basically rectangular structures with concrete floors, company's use.

National Register of Historic Places National Park Service to light the hallway.Although the steel and aluminum trim remain at many The doors, windows and marlite marble and olivewood are trimmed with stainless Back on the first level, the terrazzo flooring has semi-circular rings of dark south wing open into a corridor of offices that still have glass block walls box which contains the receptionist's desk.At the slightly higher elevation, flights of four steps each on either side of the enclosed marlite and glass of windows in the central shaft, the semi-circular floor patterns in terrazzo stairs which sweep wide on both sides to attach to the wall.

United States Department of the Interior F & W Publishing Company, who will rearrange the warehouse areas for their Even the second floor of the lobby is grand.Also lighted by the four panels very plain and have been updated through the years. some of the machinery is being reassembled in Coca-Cola's new plant on Duck masonry walls, and a flat roof.Production was stopped on August 1,1986,and green, red, and cream whose colors are carried in bands up the two short deck into the Bottling Plant. NPS Form 10-900-a door handles, curved canopy and streamlined mouldings above. The doors to the Creek Road in Cincinnati. The plant will be taken over by the new owner, are repeated.The marlite walls highlight a trophy case at the top of the (8-86) 8.

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Significance - community planning _ landscape architecture - religion - prehistoric - archeology-historic X 1900- - politics government The Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation, built in 1938, is exceptionally significant as a locally distinctive example of Art Moderne architecture, embellished with Art Deco detailing, used ing represents the use of streamlined, modern architecture and smooth, manufactüring operation with clean, modern, and completely automated Tudor Revival and Neo-Georgian styles. Therefore, the choice of S. Lester Daly, the company architect, and the owners of the Coca- Built in the Westover Industrial section of Mariemont, they were The two-story mural in the lbbby is an exceptionally significant' 1938 1600-1699 1500-1599 1400-1499 1700-1799 1800-1899 commerce invention transportation education engineering humanitarian literature Builder/Architect production.

theater Period science music local scenes. law conservation social/ the Mariemont Historic District nomination was listed. Xarchitecture The Art Moderne Coca-Cola Plant has the characteristic the design of the Dana Avenue building was probably influenced by by two sets of semi-circular staircases and a painted mural of _economics blocks that have window glass blocks which wrap around the sculpture communications corners.

The interior has a lobby with a circular reception room agriculture for two later industrial buildings.They are the Streitman Areas of Significance-Check and justify below The building is an important work of the Cincinnati architect, streamlined central tower covered with unadorned limestone, and Most of Deeken's work on residences in Indian Hill was in the and accented with brass and aluminum hardware, It is highlighted John Henri Deeken Criterion C John Henri Deeken,who practiced locally from 1907 until 1948. other (specify) sleek materials to promote the image of an efficient streamlined .archeology-prehistoric Statement of Significance

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(in one paragraph) example ofartwork used for sales promotion in the Post-Depression Era. The mural was painted (and signed) by John military -art .industry Specifiodates - philosophy an outstanding lobby intact from. the Art Moderne period. The build- floored in terrazzo, paneled in marlite marble and olive wood, exploration/settlement entered in the National:Register of Historic Places in 1979 when Biscuit Company the Cincinnati Gear Company

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Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - 4131315 81510 - state 11. Form Prepared By Mary Ann Brown, Executive Director street & number Ohio 45214 As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 State Historic Preservation Officer signature county code Easting organization Cincinnati East Northing date national Attest: Zone local Verbal boundary description and justification name/title See Continuation Sheet #4 9. Major Bibliographical References UTM References Miami Purchase Association 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification 812 Dayton St.

Chief of Registration city or town For NPS use only Quadrangle scale - Keeper of tha National Register The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: 6.92 telephone 513-721-4506 1:24,000 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated NPS Form 10-900-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 National Park Service Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH Section number _ 8 Island, Sunlite Pool, and River Downs. this period in order to promote the image of a modern, efficient firm in tune Cincinnati Times-Star from November 26, 1938, "It's modern architecture the design of the company architect, S.

Lester Daly, it has a central rotunda, Continuation Sheet Page companies, selected the Art Deco and Art Moderne architectural styles during flanking wings, and a decorative interior which incorporates relief carvings National Register of Historic Places Although there were other Coca-Cola Bottling Plants built in Cleveland, these leisure time scenes are juxtaposed against scenes of people at work in plants of its day in this section of the country.Coca-Cola, as well as other hands" proclaimed advanced industrial design.According to a tabloid from the of Coca-Cola bottles. United States Department of the Interior at the beach, at the races, and at work-breaks.Used for a promotional tool, produce a bottle of Coca-Cola". Springfield and Youngstown are either gone or were built When the Coca-Cola Plant was completed in 1938,it was one of the most modern later.

In adjoining states, there are several fine examples of this modern sunrise patterns. In Paducah, Kentucky, the Coca-Cola Plant, built from (8-86) enjoyed by the American Public.It shows people drinking bottles of Coca-Cola typifies the advanced methods and equipment employed in each step required to Indianapolis, Indiana, faced with terra cotta and decorated with floriated and surfaces were in vogue for the materials and motifs.And "untouched by human with the tastes of a new generation of consumers. FHR-8-300 (11-78) Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH Item number #9 and #10 WPA Guide, Cincinnati, 1947 Silberstein, Iola, Cincinnati, Then and Now, 1982 2, Parcels 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 111, 112, and 115.

The real of way on a curve to the left with a radius of 870.36 feet, a distance of 122.80 feet to a point in the West line of Woodburn Avenue, distant 121.30 received Page Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service Photographs from the Indianapolis Coca-Cola Plant Continuation sheet National Register of Historic Places #9 Major Bibliographical References estate is described: Beginning at a point in the west line of Woodburn United States Department of the Interior date entered #10 Geographical Data 511.47 feet to a point; thence continuing in the north line of said right Avenue North 4 Avenue 140 feet south of the southwest corner of Woodburn and Dana Avenues; Verbal Boundary Description-The property located at 1507 Dana Avenue is For HCRS use only feet South of the point of beginning;thence in the west line of Woodburn "A Brief Account of the Known Works of 28' East 121.30 feet to the place of beginning.

"Coca-Cola New Plant Section", Cincinnati Times-Star Nov. 26, 1938 227.90 feet to a point in the north line of the right of way of the Norfolk Plans and drawings prepared by Christopher Knoop, architect identified in the Hamilton County Auditor's records as Plat Book 59,Page thence North 8530' West 625 feet to a point;thence South 4 28' West 1507 Dana Avenue, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 6 EAST FOURTH STREET CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202 621-8600 NORTH SITE DANA Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation AVENUE Office/Manufacturing/Warehouse Space CLINE REALTORS 1507 Dana Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio OHIO RIVER BRICK CORNING COCA SUBMITLED BY 216 MAY 2 2 1987 REGISTER NATIONAL RECEIVED WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Working No.

- Date Due: nomination by person or local government - REJECT - Federal Agency: - -appeal Jrequest Discipline _ _ see continuation sheet _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification Present Use 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7. Description _excellent -unaltered LJ original site - moved completeness Accessible Condition resubmission Ownership Category fair Date ruins alterations/integrity unexposed deteriorated sample Status Action: Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation clarity RETURN Hamilton County Substantive Review: boundary selection 6. Representation in Existing Surveys NR decision Public Acquisition Check one good summary paragraph Reviewer's comments: owner objection Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance Has this property been determined eligible? ("R" June 1984) MAY 22 1987 Fed. Reg.

Date: 2/2/88 Nomination returned for: - yes ACCEPT 87000985 7-2-8 8. Significance justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By _national - Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item maybe continued on an attached sheet Date Builder/Architect Signed context title local applicable criteria Period state Maps 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification completeness UTM References justification of areas checked summary paragraph Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Photographs State Historic Preservation Officer signature Acreage of nominated property Verbal boundary description and justification relating significance to the resource Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Specific dates Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: relationship of integrity to significance Quadrangle name clarity S YAM Names of Nominated Properties: Coca-cola Bottling Co Others (see attached): yes _ Additional Conments: YEARS attached to this sheet attached to individual property evaluation/return sheet attached to MRA/Theme cover evaluation/return sheet Reviewer: P.

Andu Explanation of recommendation: Recommendation: REQUEST FOR DECISION ON PROPERTIES ACHIEVING SIGNIFICANCE WITHIN THE LAST 50 Coca-Cola Photo # / Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio MAY 2 2 1987 7/86 NATIONAL REGISTER RECEIVED Mary AnnBrown, facing S North facade from Dana Ave. Coca-Cola Bldg Photo # 2 7/86 West facade and front Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Mary Ann Brown, facing NE Coca-Cola Bldg PHOTO 2 Photo # 3 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 7/86 Mary Ann Brown, facing SE Coca-Cola Bldg North and west facades Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Mary Ann Brown, facing E 7/86 Central shaft on West facade Coca-Cola Bldg Photo # 5 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Mary Ann Brown, facing SE Coca-Cola Bldg. North facade showing side entry 7/86 7/86 Rear of 2-story portion and dock Mary Ann Brown, facing W Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Coca-Cola Bldg.

Photo # 7 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 7/86 South side of industrial area along RR Mary Ann Brown, facing N by E Coca-Cola Bldg. Photo # 8 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Mary Ann Brown, facing E Inteior first floor lobby 8/86 Coca-Cola Bldg. Photo # 9 7/86 Lobby, receptionist's desk, and steps Coca-Cola Bldg. Cincinnati, Hamilton Coa Mary Ann Brown, from 2nd level 7/86 Close-up of desk and Bottling Works Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Coca-Cola Bldg. Photo # // Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 7/86 Mary Ann Brown, Facing N thru doors, Looking from lobby into multi-purpose are Coca-Cola Bldg. Photo # /2 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Lobby looking into offices in south w Mary Ann Brown, Facing S from Coca-Cola Bldg. 7/86 Photo # /3 7/86 shaft showing Sunlite Pool Mary Ann Brown, Mural on wall of Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Coca-Cola Bldg.

PHOTO 3 Photo #/4 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Mary Ann Brown, Mural on shaft wall showing River Downs Race Track Coca-Cola Bldg. lights in fluted shaft, interior 7/86 Mary Ann Brown, Four panels of Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Coca-Cola Bldg. Photo # /5 Photo # /6 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio semi-circular staircase, Looking E 7/86 Mary Ann Brown, 2nd floor at top of Coca-Cola Bldg. Cinninnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 7/86 into office of south wing Mary Ann Brown, 2nd floor looking Coca Cola Bldg. Photo # /8 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 1ooking toward north wing of offices 7/86 Mary Ann Brown, 2nd floor of lobby, Coca Cola Bldg. Photo # /9 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Mary Ann Brown, Mural on wall of shaft 7/86 showing metal railing and lamp in foreg Coca Cola Bldg.

Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 7/86 showing amusement park-old Coney Island Mary Ann Brown, Mural on wall of shaft Coca Cola Bldg. Photo # 2/ Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 7/86 showing people drinking Coke Mary Ann Brown, Stairway with mural Coca Cola Bldg. Photo # 22 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Mary Ann Brown, Lobby showing mural 7/86 of Bottling Works in background Coca-Cola Bldg. Mary Ann Brown, Close-up of mural with REGISTER 7/86 people drinking Coke and Bottling Works MAY 2 2 1987 Coca Cola B1dg. NATIOMAL CINCINNATI EAST QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY COCA-COLA BOTTLING CORPORATION CINCINNATI EAST, OHIO N907.5w0422.5/7.5 OHIO-HAMILTON CO. 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) 0 MAY 2 2 1987 UNITED STATES ROAD CLASSIFICATION 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 SINCE 1885 May 18, 1987 Ms. Carol Shull, Chief P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C.

20013-7127 Weddle, Callahill and Priscilla, House Griffin, Alexander B., House WRL : ael SOCIETY County Washington 614/297-2470 Portage Miami Hamilton Enclosures HISTORICAL Franklin Department of the Interior New Submissions National Park Service Dear Carol: National Register of Historic Places Enclosed are 5 new National Register nominations.All of the appropriate Becker Lumber and Manufacturing Company Ohio Historic Preservation Office State Historic Preservation Office North High School Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation Please contact me if you have any questions. W. Ray Luce Sincerel OHIO notification procedures have been followed for these new submissions.