Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1984. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“The Procter and Collier-Beau Brummell Building is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is located at 440 East McMillan St in the Walnut Hills neighborhood.”
Wikipedia article Procter and Collier-Beau Brummell Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.84002714- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
The reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.
Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,263 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Procter and Collier-Beau Brummell Building between 1819 and
1975: 3,193 Fungi, 1,729 Animalia, 926 Plantae, 364 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Procter and Collier-Beau Brummell Building: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Lead, Antimony, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
4,448 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Description of the property
tain banks of two and three windows. All windows throughout the building are 1/1 with new The west facade contains two projecting gabled sections towards the south, which flank the The smaller gable to the north juts out over a set of three windows. A recessed a wood rail with an ogee arch design, fieldstone bases, and a three sets of French doors the slogan "Beau Brummel Ties the Best". The tower is capped by accone-shaped roof with the original building. This addition is two stories high withsa flat roof and a yellow Co. Building, is a 2z story industrial structure in the Tudor Style located on a land- ruins deteriorated roof with intersecting gabled sections.
the rear of the west wing.This brick chimney is decorated with corbelling on the sides with geometric designs in leaded glass.Below this recessed area are three large round The symmetrical front features a slightly projecting central pavilion com- third story level.Adjacent to this central pavilion are receding sections which con- roof above this section is punctuated by a long low dormer which contains a row of six- nated by a two-story bay window which has brick pieces in the corners and a smooth stucco There is only one is located at OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Item number of wooden interior doors with beveled glass windows.
Small stained glass windows are loca- Behind and to the sides of this staircase is a large open area with concrete columns at four walls with a Rookwood Mantel as its focus, this room is basically unaltered from its simpler, functional design. interior.
(in one paragraph) The Gordon B. Miller & Co. Building, originally the Procter & Collier Building, and most tectural firm of Elzner and Anderson, designers in a variety of styles and perhaps the leaders the growing use of applying corporate symbolism into commercial architecture, is strik- Gamble account, handling the firm's advertising business for more than twenty years.
In 1918, the Procter and Collier Company, anxious to leave the noise and high overhead costs of Cincinnati's central business district, announced plans for the construction locations, the new building would feature landscaped grounds, natural lighting and during the 1920s, Elzner and Anderson completed a factory and offices for the 1700-1799 1600-1699 1800-1899 1921 1500-1599 transportation 1400-1499 industry engineering education humanitarian invention exploration/settlement prehistoric economics _archeology-historic Specific dates convenient to downtown while still providing ideal working conditions conducive to the of Early Tudor Revival architecture in Cincinnati and as a representative work of the archi- The architectural firm responsible for the design of Procter and Collier was Elzner ingly apparent in Procter and Watch Co.,Baldwin Piano and others.
of"an artistic building"just north of downtown on a hilltop setting in Walnut Hills. (continued) _science The Procter and Collier Company was founded in Cincinnati in 1893 by Allen C.Collier truly was "A Home Worthy of its Work."i -art - archeology-prehistoric community planning Elzner and Anderson, Cincinnati familiarly known as the Beau Brummel Building, is significant as a distinctive expression in the Tudor Revivalstyle in Cincinnati, and Anderson, Cincinnati's leading practitioners of the Tudor and Jacobethan styles. as a building material, designing such buildings as the Ingalls Building (1903), the both adopted the building and its distinctive water tower as a form of corporate advertis- best efforts of writers, artists and other creative personnel.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 84002714, 32 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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