{"nrhp_refnum":"83004309","name":"Times-Star Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"800 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.10586435500005,"lon":-84.50649124999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-11-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture","Communications"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 16-story Art Deco newspaper plant and office tower at 800 Broadway in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, completed in 1933 for the Cincinnati Times-Star. It is also known as the Post Times-Star Building.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its association with the Times-Star, an influential newspaper owned by the Taft family, and its distinctive Art Deco design combining a modern newspaper plant with an office tower. It also notes that the many local firms employed on the building, along with other early-1930s projects, helped cushion Cincinnati from the worst effects of the Depression.","narrative":"Rising 250 feet above Broadway and Eggleston Avenue, this 16-story building in Cincinnati was constructed to house the Times-Star newspaper and opened in 1933. Designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons and built with steel, reinforced concrete, brick and Bedford limestone, it combines an office tower with a six-story production wing. Its layout used a gravity system in which copy moved downward from the sixth floor to the mail room, and special flooring dampened press vibration. The exterior is Art Deco, with setback massing, fluted pilasters, bronze and aluminum spandrels, a triumphal arched entrance and a crowned tower with a night beacon. Inside, a two-story marble lobby has a loggia, coffered ceiling and decorative elevator doors. The building mattered as the home of a Taft-family newspaper and as an Art Deco landmark. Its construction also employed many local firms during the early Depression years. Television station WKRC occupied it from 1949 to 1959, and the Post took over the paper in 1957.","period_of_significance":"1933","architect_builder":"Samuel Hannaford & Sons/Ferro Concrete Const.","architectural_style":"Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Marked as occupied, in good condition, unaltered and on its original site; the form says the offices of the Post are still located in the building.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.067661-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/83004309.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004309/568b9a2755-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004309/568b9a2755-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":null,"credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cincinnati-800-broadway.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cincinnati-800-broadway.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989029","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Times-Star_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5120322"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/times-star-building-83004309/"}