{"nrhp_refnum":"80003058","name":"Hooper Building","other_names":["Fourth and Elm Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"139-151 W. 4th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.09929985000008,"lon":-84.51550993699999,"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":"Seven-story commercial building at 137-151 West Fourth Street, on the southeast corner of Fourth and Elm Streets in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was built in 1893 to designs by Samuel Hannaford & Sons for The John Church Co.","why_significant":"It is a work of the Cincinnati architects Samuel Hannaford & Sons, included in a thematic group of their buildings. It is also tied to two major local businesses: the John Church Co., a leading publisher of sacred music, and the Joseph Lazarus clothing company. It forms part of the architectural fabric of West Fourth Street.","narrative":"Rising seven stories at the southeast corner of Fourth and Elm Streets in Cincinnati, the Hooper Building was completed in 1893 to designs by Samuel Hannaford & Sons. It was built for The John Church Co., whose president, William Hooper, owned the property. The brick structure rests on a random ashlar limestone foundation and shows Commercial Queen Anne styling, with five bays on its north and west facades, arcaded lintels with scrolled keystones, a wide beltcourse, and a bracketed cornice. The John Church Co. manufactured pianos, instruments and printed music, and was the leading publisher of sacred music in the world around 1900. It left in 1926. The Joseph Lazarus Company, a clothing manufacturer that grew from 14 employees in 1886 to 300 in 1904, occupied the building from about 1895 until 1968. The storefront and windows have been altered, but the building remains part of the West Fourth Street streetscape and a recognized Hannaford work.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Samuel Hannaford & Sons (architect); builder unknown","architectural_style":"Commercial Queen Anne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Inventory lists condition as good inside and out, with alterations to the cast iron storefront, replaced windows and part of the east cornice removed; present use is commercial.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.704117-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003058.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003058/a1105d054f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003058/a1105d054f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HooperBuilding.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:HooperBuilding.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985338","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooper_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5898362"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/hooper-building-80003058/"}