{"nrhp_refnum":"80003037","name":"Brittany Apartment Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"100-104 W. 9th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.105249051000044,"lon":-84.51564792799996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-03-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A six-story brick apartment and commercial building at 100-104 West Ninth Street in Cincinnati's Central Business District, built in 1885 to designs by Samuel Hannaford for Thomas Emery's Sons.","why_significant":"It is a significant remnant of the early real estate endeavors of the Emery family, among Cincinnati's most prominent developers. It is one of only two surviving apartment houses the Emery Estate built in the mid-1880s, and it is part of the Samuel Hannaford thematic group. It also complements the nearby Saxony Apartment Building and strengthens the historic fabric of West Ninth Street.","narrative":"Six stories of brick rise at 100-104 West Ninth Street in downtown Cincinnati, where the Brittany Apartment Building has stood since 1885. Samuel Hannaford designed it, and Thomas Emery's Sons built it with apartments above and commercial space below. Queen Anne influences show in the brick pilasters, decorative corbeling, sandstone lintels carved with egg and dart patterns, wrought iron balconies, and a pair of frame bay windows on the south facade. The east facade retains a fluted cast iron storefront, though it has been altered. The Emery Estate also built the Lorraine, the Normandy and the Lombardy apartment houses in the mid-1880s, and only the Lombardy and the Brittany remain. The Emerys were prominent Cincinnati developers whose later projects included the Ohio Mechanics Institute, the Carew Tower and the Village of Mariemont. Across the street, the Saxony Apartment Building, also by Hannaford, complements the Brittany in style, scale and construction.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Samuel Hannaford (architect); Thomas Emery's Sons (builder)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne influences","criteria":[],"status_note":"Inventory lists exterior condition as good; present use is apartments and commercial. The east facade storefront has been altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.50049-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003037.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003037/24dd41a4e7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003037/24dd41a4e7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrittanyApartments.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BrittanyApartments.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"80003067","name":"Ninth Street Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/ohio/ninth-street-historic-district-80003067/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985428","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany_Apartment_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716373"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/brittany-apartment-building-80003037/"}