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 Cincinnati Enquirer Building is the former headquarters building of The Cincinnati Enquirer on Vine Street in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. It was designed by the firm of Lockwood Greene and Company and completed in 1926.”
Wikipedia article Cincinnati Enquirer Building, 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.85002787- 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 5,844 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Cincinnati Enquirer Building between 1819 and
1975: 2,843 Fungi, 1,719 Animalia, 933 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 Cincinnati Enquirer Building: 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
pending.
From the nomination file
4,436 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
decorative bronze grill above. between the 13th and 14 stories.The pilasters have pedestals between the 1st and paper offices and printing plant.The building fronts116 feet on Vine Street and on the reveals and soffit.There isa bronze hanging light with an echoing motif for the remaining eleven stories.This change of plan permits light courts for on the terrazzo floor below.Bronze revolving doors in 1947)and Of singular importance is the lobby and recessed entrance in the center of the .fair The east elevation, or Vine Street facade, is of smooth Indiana limestone. It is inscribed cartouche on the gable end.
There are two gargoyles on the facade - good deteriorated ruins Check one richly embellished and other motifs evident in the lobby include acorns, The Cincinnati Enquirer Building at 617 Vine Street is a fourteen story commercial/ stories 2-4,stories 5-13 forming the shaft,and the 14th story and roof the Item number 7 Page 2 Antique marble bands and chevrons, echoing the barreled ceiling above. ation appearing on the east end of the dumbell plan, facing Vine Street.
This 25 - 30 fenestration has basket weave brickwork, and a crown consists of diamond and arched in the Central Business District streetscape, a mix of modern, Art Deco and 31 - 34 Romanesque, Art Deco, Gothic and Classical features, has the ecclecticism which PHOTOS received Inventory-Nomination Form Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service and is without ornamentation. sympathetically integrates it into the twentieth century.
(in one paragraph) The Cincinnati Enquirer Building is of great local significance in a social context as America, and of general importance since the newspaper has continued virtual uninter- continuity. The building was designed as a publishing house, built around and replaced a publishing house, and has preserved its architectural integrity since its construct- ion in circa 1926 -28. For these reasons this building is eligible for listing to the Inquisitor and Cincinnati Advertiser, as it was known then, to John and Charles Brough the paper along the same lines of editorial policy and principal. The Enquirer was sold his interest in the paper to Hiram H.
Robertson, who in turn sold his controlling 1866, when fire destroyed part of the Enquirer offices, and an adjacent building, edition not published in its 142 year history. New premises were found at #247 Vine Street in a four story Italianate structure, and to keep pace with expansion, in 1907 a new printing plant was built, adjacent to the current offices. was on the drawing boards of Lockwood Greene, architects and engineers, in 1924, the cotton and wool milling industry as owners, operators, as well as consultants, had led to a vast number of industrial commissions in the New England area. They were quick to use, as well as devise, labor saving and safety equipment. Between 1882 and 1901 the company built some 64 cotton mills and 14 other factories.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 85002787, 67 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.
Block
