Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1985. 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 Phoenix Building and Cincinnati Club are two historic buildings in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The membership of these two clubs was chiefly Jewish.”
Wikipedia article Phoenix Building/Cincinnati Club, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.85000068- 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 5,864 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Phoenix Building/Cincinnati Club between 1819 and
1975: 2,843 Fungi, 1,726 Animalia, 946 Plantae, 298 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
1 working within 5 miles of Phoenix Building/Cincinnati Club: 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin, Lead, Antimony. 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
10,101 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
enclosed walk and two subterranean tunnels, one for pedestrians and one for mechanical windows, two to each bay of the base, that service the hotel like "dormitory" rooms The interior public spaces are hgihly decorative.
The below grade basement contains deteriorated an Italian Renaissance grill for informal dining.The marble finished ground floor dining rooms.Attic windows in the bold wall cornice serve the meeting and banquet Cincinnati artist Carl Zimmerman.It was donated by Mrs.Charles A.Pedretti in continuous balcony course with balusters in each window bay.Alternate pairs of brick with cast stone trim.The design of the two principal facades bays on and apartments.A number of the second shaft range of windows have symmetrically windows have segmental pedimented headmolds.The cap isa strong parapet with antefix.
rooms.The shaft with corner pilasters has five floors of 2/2 doublehung sash divided by heavy muntins.A second range set off by a belt course has architraval in paneled Tudor and the"Gold Room"for the ladies is at the opposite end.Palladian memory of her husband who was a prime mover in the building of the new building. OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Phoenix Building/Cincinnati Club, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Continuation sheet Item number The building to the immediate east side is the Marcus Fechheimer House (now the (c.1923) of similar scale across the boulevard type Piatt Park is National Register architecture is compatible and appears to be economically stable.
fenestration on both street front facades. The entire building is distinguished by its Second Renaissance Revival detailing and arched front is piece with stone and brick voussoirs, is flanked by smaller decorated frieze, small dentils, and bracketed cornice comprise the entablature.
(in one paragraph) Phoenix Building (NR: 3/3/80) listed on a thematic nomination representing the work of prominent firm of Garber and Woodward, the Cincinnati Club Building currently houses built as the headquarters for the Phoenix Building, a men's social and cultural organization, which later disbanded. The building later housed the Queen's City Club, another social organization. To meet the Cincinnati Club's growing membership, the Cincinnati Club Building, the first structure designed and built for the Club, was completed on March 17, 1924. lawyers, and accountants to presidents, vice presidents, and senior officers of small grandsons followed the footsteps of active membership. with many active committees.
The committees include Public Schools, Railway and Terminal century, many clubs were formed to address the special interests of the trades and was unique in its cause for formation, but all were motivated by the active growth of humanitarian engineering communications unit. Period 8. Significance military theater literature education many others.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 85000068, 79 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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