{"nrhp_refnum":"80003073","name":"Phoenix Club","other_names":["Cincinnati Club Annex","Queen City Club","See Also:Phoenix Club/"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"9th and Race Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.10505914400005,"lon":-84.51519206599994,"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 four-story brick and stone clubhouse at the southeast corner of Ninth and Race Streets in the Central Business District of Cincinnati, Ohio, built in 1893 for the Phoenix Club and designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons.","why_significant":"It is one of several buildings in Cincinnati designed by Samuel Hannaford and his firm, included in a thematic group of his work. It is a notable example of Second Renaissance Revival design. It also reflects the history of the Phoenix Club, a social organization of mainly Jewish membership founded in 1856, and later the Queen City Club.","narrative":"Standing at the southeast corner of Ninth and Race Streets in downtown Cincinnati, this four-story clubhouse was built in 1893 for the Phoenix Club and designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons. Construction began in May 1893 and cost $100,000. The Phoenix Club, founded in 1856 by 30 members and primarily Jewish in membership, aimed at social enjoyment and literary and dramatic culture. It had earlier met on Walnut Street and then in a Court Street and Central Avenue building that was demolished in 1978. The facades show Second Renaissance Revival detailing, with bays that shrink toward the top, a central pavilion with three Doric columns supporting a Palladian bay, stone and brick quoins, and cartouches marked PC and 1893. After the Phoenix Club disbanded, the Queen City Club used the building, and it now serves as an annex to the Cincinnati Club. It was listed as one of several Hannaford-designed buildings in the city.","period_of_significance":"1893","architect_builder":"Samuel Hannaford & Sons (architect); David Hummel Const. Co. (contractor)","architectural_style":"Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Serves as an annex to the Cincinnati Club; exterior condition fair, interior good. A portion of the Palladian bay on the west facade has been bricked in.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:12.157939-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/80003073.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003073/273502e671-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003073/273502e671-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhoenixClub.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:PhoenixClub.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/71985364","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Club","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2088510"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/phoenix-club-80003073/"}