{"nrhp_refnum":"80003061","name":"Krippendorf-Dittman Company","other_names":["Krippendorf Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"628 Sycamore St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.10391836200006,"lon":-84.50817866299997,"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 seven-story brick commercial and manufacturing building at 628 Sycamore Street in Cincinnati's Central Business District, built in 1888 for the Krippendorf shoe company, with a north wing added around 1900.","why_significant":"The building was designed by Hannaford & Son and is part of a thematic group of works by Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford. It combines Romanesque and Queen Anne detailing. It also housed a large shoe factory founded by Charles Krippendorf, later the Krippendorf-Dittman Company.","narrative":"Rising seven stories at 628 Sycamore Street in downtown Cincinnati, this brick building was constructed in 1888 as a shoe factory and commercial space for the Krippendorf Company. Charles Krippendorf, born in Prussia in 1836, had started making ladies' and children's shoes in Cincinnati by 1872 and took full control of the firm in 1885. The design is credited to Hannaford & Son, with Louis Picket commissioned later for an addition. Romanesque and Queen Anne details appear throughout, including an arcaded top floor, heavy cast iron on the first floor, corbeled brick, ashlar lintels and sills, and the monograms \"A.D. K.D. Co. 1888.\" A north wing was added around 1900. At completion the plant held 150 to 200 sewing machines, employed 500 people and made 10,000 pairs of shoes weekly. The firm later partnered with Dittman and employed 700 in 1938. It is included among works by architect Samuel Hannaford and is now used for offices and storage.","period_of_significance":"1888","architect_builder":"Hannaford & Son / Louis Picket (architect or engineer); builder unknown","architectural_style":"Commercial; Romanesque and Queen Anne detailing","criteria":[],"status_note":"Present use is office/storage; interior and exterior condition listed as good.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.07395-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003061.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003061/bee13fd98e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003061/bee13fd98e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Krippendorf.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:Krippendorf.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71985330","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krippendorf-Dittman_Company","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6437116"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/krippendorf-dittman-company-80003061/"}