{"nrhp_refnum":"83002056","name":"Hurth Hotel","other_names":["Rivertown Apartments"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"222 Chillicothe St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Portsmouth","county":"Scioto County","state":"OH","lat":38.73205612800007,"lon":-82.99659326799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An eight-story Renaissance Revival hotel built about 1926 at 222 Chillicothe Street in Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, near the Ohio River. C. C. Taylor of Portsmouth was the architect.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the hotel as a major architectural contribution to early twentieth-century Portsmouth. It was one of several high-rise, classically detailed buildings that expressed the optimism of the booming industrial economy and marked completion of the new city center along Chillicothe Street. It was long regarded as the community's social center.","narrative":"Hotel Hurth is an eight-story hotel at 222 Chillicothe Street in Portsmouth, Ohio, built around 1926 to designs by Portsmouth architect C. C. Taylor. Its tan Flemish bond brick walls, cast stone trim, arcaded basement, and a three-bay entrance with a stone balconette and large metal canopy give it a Renaissance Revival character. A dentiled cornice with modillion brackets crowns the top story. It sits near the Ohio River at the south end of the main commercial core, beside two- and three-story late Victorian buildings. The hotel reflects a period when Portsmouth merchants, supported by firebrick, shoe and machinery manufacturing, built a new, taller commercial center along Chillicothe Street. Together with the nearby U.S. Grant Bridge, it marked the completion of that center, and for years it served as the town's social hub. Its quality declined in the 1970s after a newer hotel opened nearby. In 1982 it was converted to low-income housing for senior citizens, with some original windows and doors replaced by compatible metal units.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date c 1926)","architect_builder":"C. C. Taylor Architect (Portsmouth)","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Converted in 1982 to low-income senior citizen housing (Rivertown Apartments); described as in excellent condition and altered, with original windows replaced by metal units.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.311914-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83002056.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002056/6f9e9a8ae7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83002056/6f9e9a8ae7-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurth_Hotel_in_Portsmouth.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurth_Hotel_in_Portsmouth.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991257","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138672109"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/scioto-county/hurth-hotel-83002056/"}