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Property is: Race Street Historic District Applicable National Register Criteria (Enter categories from instructions) (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio The Race Street Historic District is an irregularly shaped district in downtown surrounding blocks that have been redeveloped, this area retains the early street except for those abutting alleys. All have one- or two-story storefronts, which have been altered over time.
examples of the revival styles--Italianate, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival, former John Shillito Company), the Robertson Building, the Groton Building, and the Denton Building, which together frame the pivotal intersection of Seventh and (individually listed), the Lancaster, Conrad and J. J. Newberry Co. buildings. enlarged. At the upper floors of this 7-story building, continuous horizontal the original building, built in 1877, is still visible on Shillito Place (Photo skeleton with external masonry piers, as well as for its multi-story atrium on Toading dock was added at the southwest corner of the building. Race Street side.
An example of the Commercial style, the building consists of elevations are articulated at every floor by band courses at the sill level and Description National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Race Street Historic District bands contain square windows,stylized pilasters and green marble panels.The Italian Renaissance--as well as the Commercial and Moderne styles.All buildings Cincinnati extending fora little more than a block on Race Street and including from two to twelve buildings in the district are four to six pattern of downtown, with ten-foot-wide alleys piercing the blocks. The district includes a total of 25 low- and mid-rise commercial buildings. Ranging in height Race Streets. southwest corner of Seventh and Race (photos 2,3,4).
The smooth, streamlined ground floor is clad in polished red granite and emphasized by a bold aluminum and black granite cornice with canopies at the entrances. The brick exterior of The 1877 building was remarkable for its early use of an internal iron The Robertson Building (photo 2). Built in 1921, the Robertson Building at 707 The street at the top by a prominent cornice supported by modillions. The exterior wall Page Unlike Section number the interior.
most outstanding contributing buildings are the Lazarus Department Store (the except one contribute to the character of the district.Among the district's The most prominent building in the district,The former John Shillito Company building Lazarus Department Store)occupies an entire city block at the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Hamilton County, Ohio The Groton/Commercial Arts Buildings (photo 1,9). The 7-story Groton Building, at 700 Race Street, was built in 1897. In 1925, the Commercial Arts Building was Although never joined on the interior, these two buildings read as one, with five articulated by multi-story arcades at the bottom and middle, single windows at have been modified for changing retail uses; however, the buildings retain most of the design integrity.
The Denton Building (photo 4), at 37-41 West 7th Street, is a 1916-vintage nine- story brick building with a reinforced concrete structure and terra cotta trim. Square in plan, the building displays a tripartite composition, with a two-story The Cincinnati Gymnasium & Athletic Club (photo 22), at 111 Shillito Place, was level and smooth rusticated stone at the first floor level. The central recessed double-height doorway, emphasized by an entablature, is flanked at both levels building is made dominant by five double-height windows surmounted by keystoned blind arches and framed by stone pilasters and projecting bracketed stone sills square windows grouped in the center and a modillioned cornice with small lion heads. Stone quoins define the corners. matching masonry, with three doors and a small window.
Continuation Sheet Race Street Historic District entrance on Race Street is emphasized by an entablature supported by pilasters. story stone and orange/buff brick facade is subdivided by stone banding into Section number - added on the north side, duplicating the design, but with a concrete frame. The street elevations are cast-iron base, triple windows in the shaft, and an attic story and heavy modillioned cornice at the top. The top story is emphasized by a corbelled band at the sill level. As in many commercial buildings, the storefronts have been altered, but the upper floors are intact. built in 1903 in the Second Renaissance Revival style. Its symmetrical, four- and lintels.
In the spandrels of the arches, four medallions spell out the The top of the building is articulated by ten Abutting the original building on the east is a three-bay addition, similar in The vertically stacked windows are separated by piers. The first floor has been filled in with keystones. Page - 2 Unlted States Department of the Interior Hamilton County, Ohio at 22 West 7th Street is distinguished by its elaborate sandstone facade and use of classically derived architectural detail. The ground floor is distinguished bays by 2-story Corinthian pilasters, reflects an Italian Renaissance influence.
The spandrels of the intermediary floors are ornamented with blind balustrades The 6-story brick building at 30 West 7th Street (photo 8) was built in 1912 for The structure consists of concrete framing, floors and roof with brick The 3-story building at 14 West 7th Street (photo 6) dates from ca. 1850, making rustication, quoins, and denticulated metal cornices at the first floor and top. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Race Street Historic District retains its transom windows. it the oldestremaining building in the district.The 3-bay portion on the left defined by four windows joined by stone band courses at the lintels and sills, residence circa 1870,the building was enlarged and refaced circa 1900,and is by columns with Ionic capitals. The second floor by stone facing with four The top of the building is storefront has been altered.
the Oskamp Nolting jewelry company, which occupied the building from 1917 to The 2-story base has been surmounted by a modillioned cornice and low parapet. displays a plain entablature and eared lintels typical of the Greek Revival style. A lower one-bay section, which appears to be a later addition, features paired windows with Greek-inspired surrounds and a bracketed cornice with a brick and glass storefront and prominent splayed metal canopy. building with stone trim. The upper cornice is a full entablature, with circular medallions in the frieze. The Conrad Building (photo 7). The 1913 Conrad Building, at 18-20 West 7th now occupied by store on the first floor and apartments above. An excellent- 1980.
Section number 7 prominent features of the building are the two projecting metal-clad bays The cornice is dramatized by modillions and acroteria.The storefront still The Kenney Building (photo 6) at 10-12 West 7th Street is a 4-story brick Unlted States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio Built circa 1920, the Lyric Piano Company Building (photo 11) at 632 Race Street is a 4-story building of buff brick with white-glazed terra cotta--a commercial top floor is dramatized by an arcaded loggia surmounted by a broken pediment and building appears in raised letters in a panel above the third floor. The ground floor has been infilled with a contemporary aluminum and glass storefront with a mezzanine projecting over the sidewalk. 19th-century buildings unified by a 1950s Streamlined Moderne facade.
The simple surmounted by a tall blank fascia board extending across the facade. The two-story building at 612 Race Street (photo 13), ca. 1865, has a cast-iron facade punctuated by quoins, raised panels, dentils, and other molded decoration. 7 stories tall, this building was reduced to two stories, probably in the 1950s. Built in 1950, the J. J. Newberry Company store (photos 14, 15), at the northeast The steel-framed building is clad in a streamlined buff-brick exterior punctuateo by bands of windows and banding at the parapet. The entrance is located at the floors of the adjacent 12-story building, known as the Merchants Building. Street a smaller storefront at the eastern extension. Newberry's front, the red brick upper facade expresses the Commercial style, with three bays of triple windows with single windows in the end bays.
Detail is National Register of Historic Places Race Street Historic District Continuation Sheet elongated casement windows with bracketed sills at the 3rd and 4th floors. bearing wall construction with wood floor framing. The 4-story building at 616-628 Race Street (photo 12) comprises several late windows joined by raised brick band courses at the lintels and sills. The first floor, now divided into smaller stores with aluminum. and glass storefronts, is triple, bowed window and transoms still exists at the second floor. Originally corner of Sixth and Race Streets, like Lazarus, exemplifies the Moderne style. corner, which is rounded, and emphasized by a broad metal canopy. The name of the store, in individually mounted gold letters, contributes to the composition.
The brick cladding of Newberry's extends east on Sixth Street into the lowest 3 Race Street, there is a continuous aluminum and glass storefront, and on Sixth Ihe Merchants Building (photos 15, 16), a 12-story loft building built at 28-34 Above the buff The 6-story building at 630 Race Street (photo 10) is an example of the Page Section number 7 brick facade displays a horizontal emphasis created by widely spaced paired United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio limited to terra cotta cornices and banding at the top three floors. Presently known as the Bakers Shoe Building, the 7-story building at 609-617 Race features single windows alternating with consoles supporting the broad, bracketed cornice.
The storefronts have been altered, with signboards covering the windows 603 Race Street (photo 17) is the only non-contributing building in the district. Built in 1915 with concrete floors and framing, this 4-story building probably exemplified the Commercial style before its exterior was redone with aluminum cladding and large display windows. The only original feature still exposed is a small metal cornice. The second floor has a group of four small-paned casement windows with transoms. Spandrels below the windows, divided by consoles with lion heads, display bas- reliefs each with griffins flanking a fountain. The continuous lintel features The 3-story building at 110-112 West Sixth Street (photo 23) dates from ca. 1865.
Although a signboard obscures the second floor above the altered storefronts, the paired windows, bracketed cornice and mansard roof visible at the top of the building reflect the Second Empire style. The circa-1915, 6-story brick loft building at 114-116 West Sixth Street (photo The circa-1860, 3-story building at 118-120 West Sixth Street (photo 23) has been condition. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places medallions and garlands.The upper facade is scored to resemble tiles. Race Street Historic District is framed by a gray-glazed surround embellished with Adamesque gold ornaments. Section number _ Built in 1925, the two-story building at 106-108 West Sixth Street (photo 26) is small, but distinguished by a very refined terra cotta facade.
The storefront The upper floors have groups of four windows, wall cornice below and an entablature above, including a modillioned cornice and central recessed entrance and a doorway to the upper floors. The second floor has been sheathed in metal with vertical ribbing, pierced by two pairs of jalousie windows. The unaltered top floor retains four windows with bracketed brackets caps the building. Page frieze punctuated byrecesses corresponding with the top floor windows.
second-floor windows have small-paned transoms and upper sash.The top story and plain spandrels.The center bay on Race Street has arched windows.The 1intels and sills and two-over-two sash.A metal corn.ice with paired double United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio At 122-124 West Sixth Street (photo 24), the four-story brick building retains most of its original Italianate character, including a cast-iron storefront. The upper floors are divided into two bays by heavy pilasters, which are embellished between floor levels by plaques. Above the second floor, the three plaques spell capped by a bracketed metal cornice featuring small oculi between the brackets. Cincinnati's oldest stores--moved to Race and Seventh Streets, Race Street became which most of the buildings in the district were built.
from revival styles--Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, Romanesque Revival continual alteration of storefronts, the street has maintained its cohesiveness As Cincinnati's population rapidly grew during the 19th century, development fashionabie residential quarter in the 1840s, evolved into the primary retail and as to publisher John Church and printing and textile industries. In the late 1870s, however, commercial establishments began to move into the - Continuation Sheet Significance Commercial Development National Register of Historic Places Race Street Historic District the date of construction.Within each bay the Race Street Historic District is eligible for the National Register under reflects the heyday of Race Street as a commercial center and the time during of building type, materials, street pattern and land business district.
In the 1870s, Fourth Street was home to major stores such as Shillito's, Burkhardt's, and Mitchell & Rammelsberg furniture company, as well many by relocating his prosperous dry goods store from Fourth Street to Seventh Race Streets. district, but was able to obtain a larger piece of land than he could find on In terms of architecture,the Race Street Historic District exemplifies the pushed inland from the commercial activities closest to the and Renaissance Revival--to the Commercial and Moderne styles;and in building United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio remained for over 35 years. By the 1920s, Race Street was an integral part of the downtown retail district exception of Lazarus, which was enlarged in 1938, and J. J.
Newberry's, built in In addition to retail, the area was popular, particularly from the 1890s through 1920s, with doctors and dentists, whose offices congregated on and near were built to serve the expanding need for professional office space in the area. Since 1950, there has been no new construction of buildings in the district, but survey indicated that Race Street had the highest volume of pedestrian traffic in downtown. In 1966, the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce unveiled a plan by remodelling buildings, widening sidewalks, planting trees, and installing new several empty storefronts on Race Street, and Lazarus plans to vacate their building business in the district is the Shillito Department store, which changed its tower on Seventh Street outside the district.) In January 1995, it was announced The Conrad Building was built in 1913 by the Conrad Windisch Company.
Windisch they named after their father and later built the building that bears his name. offices occupied by sales representatives, lawyers, dentists and doctors. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Race Street Historic District Like other buildings in the Conrad building housed professional PS Form Section number - major attractions, and other businessmen gradually followed Shillito's lead by moving into the adjacent blocks. Among them was the Robert Mitchell Furniture store, ladies apparel, jewelers, grocers, a bakery and other specialty retail. Most of the buildings in the district range in age from 1875 to 1925, with the there have been numerous alterations in connection with retail activity. A 1963 by Strauss Springer Tweddell & Wheeler to improve Race Street as a shopping area lighting and a canopy over the sidewalk.
Despite these improvements, retail activity has declined on Race Street and in the entire Central Business District There are currently Several of the buildings have strong historical associations. names to Lazarus in 1986 after 155 years in business. In 1935, the company that Lazarus was merging with an Atlanta department store, and the future of the building at West Seventh and Race is in question. Heworked withseveral compantes before he founded Lion Brewery with partners Company, which in 1901 moved from Fourth Street to 616-628 Race Street, where it William and Charles continued in the brewery business, which later changed its Page The largest United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio The Oskamp Nolting building was built for one of Cincinnati's oldest jewelry watches, diamonds, silver ware, jewelry, clocks, bronzes and other items.
and was formany years located at 175 Vine Street with a factory on Harrison and Culvert The Lancaster Building was built at 22-24 West 7th Street in 1898 to house dentists whose offices were in great number on and near West Seventh Street. During the next twenty-five years, many other buildings such as the Groton, the Conrad, the Denton, and the nearby Doctors' Building were built to serve the expanding need for professional office space in the area. serving a wider socio-economic range than many other men's clubs of the time. By the turn of the century, the club had been lodged in numerous temporary homes, Construction in 1903 of CGAC's current home represents the success of the club Renaissance Revival, and Jacobethan--to the Commercial and Moderne styles. Only one building of the 25 in the district--603 Race Street--has been so extensively altered that it has no recognizable style.
Revival styles Examples of the earlier revival styles remain at 14 West 7th Street, 110-112 West in the district is the 3-story building at 14 West 7th Street, which displays a easternmost bay was added later--sometime between 1855 and 1883. The current storefront was installed for Nobby Tailors in 1970. The 6-story building at 630 Race Street is a rare example of Romanesque Revival as applied to a commercial building. Map research indicates that it was built between 1883 and 1891. Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places manufacturing above. Architectural Significance Race Street Historic District Section number - In 1912, the company moved into new quarters with a retail store and professional offices. The Cincinnati Gymnasium and Athletic Club (CGAC), at 111 Shillito Place, is one plain cornice and eared lintels typical of the Greek Revival style.
each an attempt to provide modern facilities for a steadily growing membership. building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Page The manufacturers. Streets. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 110-112 West Sixth Street, which appears on the 1855 G. H. Martin atlas, has been altered on the lower tloors but retains the bracketed cornice and mansard roof Tower levels in 1962, but still retains the original two-over-two windows with bracketed, molded hoods as well as a cornice with paired brackets. The small but distinguished two-story building at 106-108 West Sixth Street is 1925.
The storefront is framed by a gray-glazed terra cotta surround embellished Examples of Renaissance Revival are the Kenney Building, at 10-12 West Seventh Street; the Groton/Commercial Arts Buildings; the Cincinnati Gymnasium & Athletic application of Renaissance vocabulary to the early skyscraper: the Lancaster family and designed by the important local firm of Crapsey & Brown. In 1925, the Commercial Arts Building was added on the north side in accordance with drawings by Harry Hake, duplicating the design of the Groton Building, but with reinforced Built in 1898, the Lancaster Building (22-24 West 7th St.) represents a mix of for their residential designs, predominantly in the Revival styles.
Adkins, a local firm responsible for the Brighton German Bank (1900), the Second National Bank, the Oakley Bank Building, Grace Episcopal Church, and several Renaissance Revival Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Race Street Historic District Page - Hamilton County, Ohio Section number _ 8 typical of the Second Empire style. 118-120 West 6th Street reflects the First Renaissance Revival style and was probably built ca. 1860. It was altered at the an excellent example of a commercial application of the Jacobethan style in facade is scored to resemble tiles. and the Lyric Piano Company Building. Two buildings illustrate the The Groton Building, at 7th and Race Streets, was built in 1897 by the Avery Renaissance Revival style applied to an office building. entered into a partnership with George M. Anderson.
This collaboration produced one of the more successful firms in Cincinnati at the turn of the century. They were responsible for the design of the Ingalls Building, the first concrete skyscraper in the country, the Procter & Collins Building, the American Book Company Building, and the Mariemont Community Center. They also were well-known The best example of Renaissance Revival in the district, however, is the CGAC. Building at 22-24 West 7th Street; and 18-20 West Seventh Street. prominent residences. Although the Depression and World War II reduced the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Race Street Historic District Hamilton County, Ohio proportions make it a fine example of the Renaissance Revival style. Burger Chef took occupancy.
Since that time, the building has been used by other Commercial Style The Commercial style, 1875-1915, describes buildings 5 to 16 stories tall, with and spandrels may be in the same plane, or the spandrels may be recessed, but James McLaughlin's Shillito store was the most important early example of the inspired William Le Baron Jenney's use of an internal iron skeleton and external exterior is still visible on Shillito Place. Examples of the Commercial style include the Merchants' Building, the Denton addition to the CGAC. The Robertson Building at 707 Race Street was designed in 1909 by Joseph G. the Robertson Building is also significant as an early example of reinforced Library (414 Walnut) dating from 1905.
Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places club's memberships, renewed interest in physical fitness during the 1960s Dating from ca.1900,the Kenney Building at 10-12West 7th Street isa 4-story contribution to athletics in the city. Built circa 1920,the Lyric Piano Co.building at 632 Race Street isa 5-story NPS Form Section number 8 . Page - brown-brick building with stone trim. Its bold arched windows, rustication, and building of buff brick with white-glazed terra cotta. By 1940, a dress shop had fast food chains, but is now vacant. The upper facade remains unchanged. usually there is an even balance between the vertical and horizontal lines. These buildings are typically capped by a cornice of moderate projection. masonry piers in the First Leiter Building built in Chicago in 1879.
Although the store was updated in 1938 with an Art Moderne facade, the original brick Steinkamp & Brother. Since 1921, the ground floor has been continuously occupied by a bank--the Pearl-Market Bank, which became Central Trust in 1932, which in turn became PNC Bank, ca. 1990. An excellent example of the Commercial style, produced a number of important apartment buildings, as well as the Mercantile The Steinkamps Building,612 Race,609-617 Race Robertson Building,30 West 7th United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio the Commercial style, with triple windows and terra cotta cornices and banding. The firm of Tietig and Lee, who were students together at MIT, endured for fifty years--from 1902 to 1952--during which time they designed many schools, churches and commercial buildings, including the Doctors' Building at 19 Garfield Place.
punctuated by quoins, raised panels, dentils, and other molded decoration. building was originally 7 stories tall but reduced to two, probably in connection The building at 609-617 Race Street is a 7-story brick-clad concrete building, characterized by regular grids of grouped windows and a small cornice. granite-faced storefront and the porcelain enamel signboard were installed in 1952 for Chandler's shoes. Since 1984, the building has been occupied by Baker's plan, the building displays a tripartite composition, with a two-story cast-iron base, triple windows in the shaft, and a top story emphasized by a corbelled band The L. Denton Company sold ladies' and children's apparel.
Elzner and Anderson (Located at 6 East Fourth Street, the Ingalls Building was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1974.) with terra cotta, this building also expresses the tripartite composition of the Nolting jewelry company, which occupied the building until 1980. Store, which was reclad in 1938 by architects George Marshall Martin and George National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Store in 1951. Shoe Store. Race Street Historic District The Race Street Historic District has three significant examples of Moderne, The 12-story Merchants'Building Sixth Street)is theta1lest The2-story building at 612 Race a cast-iron facade Section number - Andrews by architects Tietig and Lee, who located their offices there.
Above the Moderne facade of Newberry's at the base, the red brick upper facade expresses Built in 1916, the Denton Building at 37-41 West 7th Street was designed by the buildings, the storefronts have been altered, but the upper floors are intact. reinforced concrete building in the United States--the Ingalls Building--in 1902. dating from 1938 to 1951. The earliest of the three is the Lazarus Department Roth of the firm Potter Tyler & Martin. With its smooth, streamlined Timestone Page The Trimmed United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Race Street Historic District Hamilton County, Ohio Store is an excellent example of Art Moderne with a Mayan influence.
Moderne style with its streamlined planar facade, rounded corner and horizontal Personal files of Walter Langsam, Cincinnati, Ohio Files of the Historic Conservation Board, City of Cincinnati, Ohio. "Fourth Sale Made Since 1947," Enquirer, 5/24/50, 1:3. "How Race Street has been emerging," Enquirer, 5/6/51, 1:5. "New Look Race St.," Enquirer, 9/2/66, 1:3. storefronts. Articles Bibliography Unpublished Sources "New survey confirms fact that Race St.is busy,"Enquirer,9/7/63. "Building sold for $675,000,Vista Realty Buys,"Cincinnati Post,11/3/53,1:5. Section number _ 8,9 Page _12 facade with rounded corners, continuous horizontal bands, stylized geometric Next was the J. J. Newberry Co. store, built in 1950 at the northeast corner of facade on three late-19th-century buildings at 616-628 Race Street.
The simple Streamlined Moderne facade displays a horizontal emphasis created by widely spaced paired windows joined by raised brick band courses at the lintels and district through their architectural character (illustrating the Streamline continued commercial development of the area. Records of the Department of Buildings & Inspections, City of Cincinnati, Ohio. "Downtown Building Figures in Sale," Cincinnati Enquirer, 5/24/50, 11:4. United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Continuation Sheet Hamilton County, Ohio "Oskamp Nolting to close store Xmas Eve," Enquirer, 11/19/80. "Prominent Race Street Location Purchased," Enquirer, 3/5/50, 1:30. "Race Street building bought at auction," Post, 6/7/45, 18:6. "This is My Valley," Enquirer, 5/6/51, 1:5. Cincinnati. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1988. Kenny, D. J. Illustrated Cincinnati: A Pictorial Handbook.
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1875. Williams' Cincinnati Directories, Cincinnati: Williams & Co., 1860-1986. Atlas of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Ohio. C.O. Titus, 1869. Atlas of City of Cincinnati, Ohio. New York: E. Robinson, 1883-4. Insurance Map of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati: W. H. Martin, 1855. Real Estate Atlas of Cincinnati, Ohio. New York: Sanborn Insurance Map Co., 1904, 1922, 1934. Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Cincinnati, Ohio. New York: Sanborn Insurance Map Co., 1981. Books Maps National Register of Historic Places Race Street Historic District Giglierano,Geoffrey and Deborah A.Overmyer.The Bicentennial Guide to Greater "Race Street facelift between Fifth and Sixth Street,"Enquirer,4/18/68,1:3. Insurance Map of Cincinnati,v.2.Chicago:Central Map Survey & Pub.Co.,1891 Section number - "Race Street Plan," Enquirer, 9/2/66, 8:2.
"Three Properties are Sold in Race Street Transaction, " Enquirer, 12/12/47, 1:3. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981. Page Race Street Historic District Hamilton County, OH Name of Property County and State 10. Geographical Data (Place additional UTM references on a continuation sheet.) - See continuation sheet Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property on a continuation sheet.) 11. Form Prepared By name/tite_Beth Sullebarger, City Planner, Historic Conservation Office organization City of Cincinnati . date_March 20, 1995 street & number _801 Plum Street telephone(513) 352-3298 city or town Cincinnati _ state OH - zip code 45202 Submit the following items with the completed form: A USGS map (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location. Representative black and white photographs of the property.
Additional items (Check with the SHPO or FPO for any additional items) Property Owner (Complete this item at the request of SHPO or FPO.) street & number city or town Maps Photographs Easting name telephone Northing Acreage of Property 6 Continuation Sheets Boundary Justification zip code Additional Documentation UTM References See attached list. A Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Paperwork Reduction Act Statement: This information is being collected for applications to the National Register of Historic Places to nominate a benefit in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 470 et seg.).
Estimated Burden Statement: Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 18.1 hours per response including time for reviewing (Explain why the boundaries were selected on a continuation sheet.) Zone United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Hamilton County, Ohio Corresponding lots, per the County Assessor's plat maps, are as follows: book 77, page 1, lots 147-150, book 77, page 2, lots 1-6, 11-18, and 29-35; book 77, page 3, lots 58-71; and book 145, page 2, lots 240-281, 283-290, and 298-303. The boundaries are based on visual changes in the character of the area.
properties that are individually listed--the Doctor's Building at 19 Garfield Place on the north, the Cincinnatian Hotel and the Enquirer Building on the east; Continuation Sheet Boundary Justification National Register of Historic Places Race Street Historic District district to simplify the boundaries. Verbal Boundary Description The boundary of the Race Street Historic District is shown as a dotted line on the accompanying map. An irregularly shaped district, it comprises the following and Cincinnati Bell Telephone on the west. The Cincinnati Gymnasium & Athletic have been redeveloped since 1951, with the exception of several contiguous 10-108 West Seventh Street,37-143 West Seventh Street and Shillito Place. Section number 10 Page 14 - PLUM ST - HOTEL THIRD 525 VINE ST. 1° = 200' RACE STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT All bldgs.
are contributing = District boundary marked NC- for noncontributing OFFICE PROVIDENT TOWER GANO COMMERCE HAMILTON CENTER PIONEER SIXTH PLACE FEDERATED CONVENTION COUNTY STREET 147-150 BLDG. FIFTH STATUE BUTTERFIELD LIBRARY PUBLIC ENQUIRER SENIOR HOUSE CHURCH PARK COVENANT LAZARUS GRAMERCY PIATT REGAL PLAZA 29-32 GARFIELD PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE TOWER CINCINNATI BELL 240-281 DR.ALBERTSABIN: TELEPHONE CO. PRESBYTERIAN GREENWICH ON THE PARK BANK except 601-605 Race St., 'and GARAGE EXECUTIVE TERRACE TEMPLE EIGHTH 33-35 SEVENTH BLOG. BUILDING 100 CLUB L21 United States Department of the Interior Section number - City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Beth A. Sullebarger 801 Plum Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202 Lazarus Department Store, 101-149 Seventh Street 6. 10-16 West Seventh St.
Groton Building/Commercial Arts Building 34-36 West Seventh Street/704 Race Street 630-638 Race Street Page Continuation Sheet Photographer: County/State: National Register of Historic Places District: Race Street Historic District Oskamp-Nolting Building February 1995 Conrad and Lancaster Buildings Race Street Denton Building and Lazarus Department Store Looking sw 18-24 West Seventh St. Looking sw from Race Street National Park Service 26-30 West Seventh St. 17-149 Seventh Street Looking se from Garfield Place 10-108 West Seventh Street City of Cincinnati, City Planning Department Date: The following information pertains to all photographs: Location of negatives: United States Department of the Interior Section number - 11.
Lyric Piano Company Building 618-628 Race Street Shillito Place, looking nw Shillito Place 111-119 Shillito Place Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places Looking east Lazarus Department Store Looking north 601-605 Race Street Baker's Shoe Building Looking ne National Park Service Merchants' Building and Cincinnatian Hotel West Seventh Street Cincinnati Gymnasium & Athletic Club 609-617 Race Street 122-124 West Sixth Street 632 Race Street Roce stnet between sixth & Seventh Streets United States Department of the Interior Section number - 114-116 West Sixth Street Page National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Looking north National Park Service 108 West Sixth Street Cincinnati, OH Zenith Holding & Trading Co c/o Rash & Associates P.O. Box 1600 Kathy & Karl Hoelmer Cinti. OH 45202 Chong Nung & Kil Jin Kim The Valley Center, c/o Thomas H.
Siemers 401 East Court Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 801 Plum Street, rm. 122 704 Race Street Partnership c/o Hills Developers Norman I. Barron, Trustee Race Street Historic District 7420 Montgomery Road Louis Guttman 18-20 West 7th St. Real Estate Division City of Cincinnati 5021 Jessup Road 616-628 Race St. Francis Isaac Wilks 616 Race Street Paul Sumner 119 East Court St. List of Property Owners Mill End Shops 22-24 West 7th St. 22 West Seventh St. 704 Race St. 26-30 West 7th St. 614 Race St. c/o The Case Co. 65 S. Fifth St., Suite 200 Columbus, OH 43215 Irwin I. Roth Inc. Anthony & Hazel Bianco 41 West 7th St. Cinti. OH 45238 23380 Carolwood Lane, #3104 Boca Raton, FL 33428 Fifty-One Co./Jay Cranley c/o Jeweler's Exchange Cinti. OH 45262 Richard M. Schwartz, Trustees P.O. Box 62008 Raymond B. Fine c/o Bownar Realty Judy Barron & Lois Lefton Irwin I.
Roth Inc 119 East Court St c/o James Bowman 25 S. Shaw Place Thomas A. Buckley 7088 Pickway Drive Shmalo Family Partnership 7900 Willowridge Lane 607 Race St. David Dunlap, Manager same Edwin Goldstein Jeff Robenson Albert Schmalau Colman Hanish 2250 Seymour Avenue Cincinnati Athletic Club 114-116 West 6th St. 3145 Fairhaven Lane 118-120 West 6th St. 111 Shillito Place The Kenko Corp. c/o Thomas Ahlrichs 122-124 West 6th St. 110 West 6th St. 32 West 6th St. 5697 Pinehill Lane 7th & Race, Suite 900 Edith C. Bowman, Trustee Ft. Thomas, KY 41075-1812 Federated Department Stores 7 West Seventh St. Lazarus Department Store Cinti. OH 45202 Terrence Evans, V.P. P.O. Box 1198 Mr. Arnold Bortz Towne Properties 1055 St. Paul Place Cincinnati, OH 45202 2321 Kemper Lane 2280 Royal Oak Court interested party Barry Randman 707 Race St. PNC Trust Co. Allen Nagler 101-141 West 7th St.
(Baker Shoe Bldg.) BUT TERFIELD GREENWICH ON THE PARK PLUM ST 'and GARAGE 1" = 200' THIRD 525 VINE ST. RACE STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT All bldgs. are contributing except 601-605 Race St., - = District boundary marked NC* for noncontributing Albert Shmalo OFFICE COUNTY COMMERCE PIONEER HAMILTON EXECUTIVE PLACE TERRACE PROVIDENT TOWER SIXTH SENIOR FIFTH CENTER 108100 PIATT HOTEL CONVENTION PRESBYTERIAN LAZARUS CHURCH STATUE HOUSE PUBLIC LIBRARY TEMPLE COVENANT PARK DR.ALBERTSABIN PLAZA 29-32 CINCINNATI BELL GRAMERCY FEDERATED ENQUIRER TELEPHONE CO. 240-281 BLDG.
REGAL PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE TOWER 147-150 BUILDING CLUB GARFIELD BANK .8 GARAGE STREET GANO SEVENTH BRAKE 3-17 GARFIELO L22 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET NAME : DATE RECEIVED: DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: NOMINATOR: STATE APPEAL: N OTHER : PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ACCEPT ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: DATE RETURN TELEPHONE REJECT MULTIPLE 7/21/95 8/05/95 6/21/95 PDIL: PERIOD: REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Hamilton DATA PROBLEM: N LANDSCAPE: N REQUEST: N SLR DRAFT: N Historian REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N PROPERTY DISCIPLINE NATIONAL: SAMPLE: Race Street Historic District BORIS JeWELERS Place ON RED Garfield Globe ShoeSource Payless 101-149W.seventh st LANCASTER BUILDING end 4 Seventh St, looking Sw PARK SHOE REPAIR looking nw TAILORS SHOE REPAIR WHILE YOU WAIT NOBBY'S Custom 6.10-16 W.
Seventh St looking nw 7. Conrad + Lancaster Bldgs. 18-24 W. Seventh st. Draperies Upholstery end Draperies SALE records Globe 34-36 W7h St/704 Race Hamilton County Race Street Historic District OHIO95000878 commera JEWELERS 10.630-638 Race Street looking nw Hamilton County Race Street Historic District OHIO95000878 BRAND CENTER NAME AUDIO VIDEO SONY PRICES OHIO 95000878 632 Race St. Hamilton County Race Street Historic District ". Lyne Prano Co. Bldg- SUN WIGS WIGS 12.618-628 Race St. losking ne OHIO95000878 Race Street Historic District Hamilton County STATE LIQUOR STORE OHIO 95000878 13, 612 Race st looking ne Hamilton County Race Street Historic District 14. Race St, losking ne Hamilton County Race Street Historic District OHIO95000878 Hamilton County 15. W, seventh st Race Street Historic District OHIO95000878 lookins ne 16, merchants' Bldf.
Race Street Historic District Hamilton County OHIO95000878 Dodd 17.601-605 Race St Hamilton County OHIO95000878 Race Street Historic District BaKers EYE WEAR BAKeRS Race Street Historic District OHIO95000878 Hamilton County 609-617 Race SE )HIO 95000878 ace Street Historic District Iamilton County BaKERS 95000878 [amilton County ace Street Historic District 'ace Street Historic District )HIO 95000878 [amilton County ON RED TURN PRESS HIO 95000878 ace Street Historic District [amilton County 23.100-126 W. 69h St looking nw 95000878 24,124-126 W. 6Fh St. ace Street Historic District lamilton County IRWIN L ROTH Maurice & Co. JEWELERS - DESIGNERS - LAPIDARY ARBARA NIE 621-0700 OFFICE SPACE )HIO 95000878 looking north Race Street Historic District Hamilton County GOODYE )HIO 95000878 26.108 W 6th st.
Race Street Historic District Hamilton County looking horth UNITED STATES COVINGTON, KY.-OHIO COVINGTON QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UTM References 1 16.7/4740/4330950 .S MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC Race Street Histonc F.16.714830/4330820 STATE OF KENTUCKY Unimproved road. KENTUCKY-OHIO FLORENCE 2.16.714960/4331020 District Cincinnat, INCINNATI. OHIO 452 MAILING ADDRESS: OFFICE ADDRESS: 25 SOUTH SHAW LANE 645 HIGHLAND AVENUE FT. THOMAS, KY 41075 OFFICE 6-B. N. BLDG JAMES S. BOWMAN ATTORNEY - AT - LAW PHONE: (606) 572-9200 May 3, 1995 RECEIVED MAY O 4 1995 Mr. W. Ray Luce 1982 Velma Avenue Re: nomination to Nat'l. Register Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Dear Mr. Luce: addressed to Edith C. Bowman, Trustee was forwarded to me here in J. Julian Bowman and Edith C. Bowman Trust c/o James S.
Bowman, Trustee Fort Thomas, KY 41075-1812 building on Fourth Street on October 1, 1994. considered for the 1/2 block, south of what was then Shillito's. In our opinion, either or both of these actions will add Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio." Ohio Historical Society preservation tax incentives or tax credits or Federal grants. (over) historic district following the National Register designation. State Historic Preservation Officer considered for the National Register as part of the "Race Street We have no interest in any tax deferments or historic Fort Thomas, Kentucky.Please be informed that Edith C.Bowman We have no intent to restore the front and donate an easement.
Please consider this letter as the owner's objection to the communication was addressed until my sister and I sold the My office was located at the Cincinnati address where your looking forward to a time when a major project would be Ohio Historic Preservation Office Council will not designate this building or district as a died November 10,1993 and was never a Trustee of the owner of upper floors are not tenantable. We continue to believe that, in the future, a development will require an assemblage of parcels Your communication concerning the above-captioned building c/o National Register Staff This real estate was purchased bymy family as an investment, James S. Bowman, Trustee J. Julian Bowman and Edith C. Bowman Trust COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY James S. Bowman, after being duly sworn, states that the said trust being the legal owner of the real estate located at before me, REBECCA J.
SCHLEYER Notary Public, Kentucky State at Large My Commission Expires Aug. 4, 1996 Very truly yours, of this block. belief and the signature appearing above is his own and that he for Campbell County, Kentucky, this third day of May, 1995. COUNTY OF CAMPBELL statements in the foregoing letter are true to the best of his is the Trustee of the J.Julian Bowman and Edith C.Bowman Trust, RECEIVED MAY 3 O 1995 Cincinnati, Ohio 45238 W. Ray Luce Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Re: Race Street Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 14-16 west 7th Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. Notary Public, State of Ohio My Commission Expires Sept. 30, 199g Anthony C. Bianco 513/922-0477 This is to inform you that we as property owners, object to the Ohio Historical Society c/o National Register Staff Ohio Historic Preservation Office State Historic Preservation Officer Sincerely, Dear Mr. Luce: TONI G.
HAYES listing of our property in the Ohio Historic district. May 18, 1995 1982 Velma Avenue 5697 Pinehill Lane RECEIVED JUN - 2 1995 DR. RAYMOND B. FINE 3145 FAIRHAVEN DRIVE CINCINNATI, OHIO 45237 May 3| , 1995 Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 ATTN: W.RAY LUCE through 124 West Sixth Street that has been entered into a IN DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, OHIO" This letter is formal notice that we object to the listing favor of this Race Street Historic District at all. Phy1lis G. Fine STATE OF OHIO COUNTY OF HAMILTON, Raymond B. Fine and Phyllis G.
Fine Sincerely, Ohio Historical Society State Historic Preservation Officer personally came of our property into this are not in of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and ninty-five in accordance with National Historic Preservation Act 36 CFR 60 Be it remembered, That on this iday of May in the year C/o NATIONAL REGISTER STAFF RE:Rights of Owners to object to listing in the National Register Notary and for said Dear Sir or Madam, We are the ownersof two parcels of Real Estate located at 116 In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my notarial seal on the day and year last atoresaid. and acknowledge the signing hereof to be their voluntary act and deed. SWEDLOW, BUTLER & LEVINE Co., L.P.A. ATTORNEYS AT LAW ONE COLUMBUS GERALD H. SWEDLOW 10 WEST BROAD STREET JACK C. BUTLER COLUMBUS, OHIO 43215-3418 SEAN M.
GOUHIN June 5, 1995 VIA CERTIFIED MAIL Ohio Historical Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Race Street Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 612-614 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio The undersigned is the duly authorized attorney for W. Lyman Case Holding Corporation. The corporation is the owner of the property at 612-614 Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. considered for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. W. Lyman Case Holding Coxporation by Gerald H. Swedlow, Authorized Attorney COUNTY OF FRANKLIN NOTARY PUBLIC, STATE OF OHIO MY COMMISSION EXPIRES JAN. 18, 1999 Gentlemen: FACSIMILE GHS/lad Notary Public JULIA A. JACOBY Co. which was the former owner of the property.
The letter advises that the property is being I am in receipt of a letter dated April 17, 1995, addressed to Zenith Holding & Trading Please be advised that the owner objects to the listing of the property. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of June,1995,by Gerald H.Swedlow. (614) 461-8178 STATE OF OHIO SUITE 2400 (614) 461-1100 CHARD L. LEVINE Very Aruly yours, JEFFREY M. LEWIS RECEIVED JUN 0 8 Ta995ne City Planning Department Room 228, City Hall Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (513) 352-3471 Leon A. Meyer Director of City Planning 6 June 95 Dr. W. Ray Luce Re: Race Street Historic District Dear Dr. Luce: Historic Conservation Board (HCB) reviewed the nomination of the proposed Race Street Historic District at their regular meeting on June 5, 1995. A copy of the Honorable Roxanne Qualls Historic Conservation Board Equal Opportunity Employer City of Cincinnati Mayor nomination.
OHIO Sincerely Ohio Historical Society historic-related financial incentives. Ohio Historic Preservation Officer Enclosure This district was initiated by the City of Cincinnati's Economic Development In fulfillment of our role in the Certified Local Government program,the Department in order to promote rehabilitation of this downtown area through 1982 Velma Avenue - 1788 Columbus, OH 43211-2497 staff report to the HCB is enclosed. It is our opinion that the proposed district is eligible for the National Chairman Ohio Historical Center 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 Fax: 297-2546 INTERAGENCY RESOURCES DIVISION NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Ms. Carol Shull, Chief of Registration National Register of Historic Places P. O. Box 37127 Washington, D. C. 20013-7127 Enclosed please find one (1) new National Register nomination.
All appropriate notification procedures have been followed for this new submission. NEW SUBMISSION Race Street Historic District We have received four (4) letters from owners who object to their properties being listed; State Historic Preservation Officer Hamilton SOCIETY COUNTY 614/297-2470 enclosures Sincerely, HISTORICAL Dear Carol: this constitutes a minority of property owners in the historic district. If you have questions or comments about this document, please contact this office. SINCE 1885 NATIONAL REGISTER BRANCH W. Ray Luce JUN 2 1 1995 Ohio Historic Preservation Off ECEIVE
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