{"nrhp_refnum":"85002787","name":"Cincinnati Enquirer Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"617 Vine St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.10313407000007,"lon":-84.51364086399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fourteen-story commercial and industrial building at 617 Vine Street in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, built circa 1926-28 as the headquarters and printing plant of The Cincinnati Enquirer, designed by Lockwood Greene & Co.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the only home since 1927 of one of southwest Ohio's oldest daily newspapers and the publishing house of the oldest Sunday newspaper in America. It also credits the architectural firm Lockwood Greene, which designed many newspaper plants, and notes the building has kept its architectural integrity. Its eclectic facade and richly decorated lobby are cited as examples of Art Deco-era design.","narrative":"Rising fourteen stories on Vine Street in downtown Cincinnati, this limestone-faced building was constructed around 1926-28 as the home and printing plant of The Cincinnati Enquirer. The architectural and engineering firm Lockwood Greene designed it as a wraparound structure, so the newspaper could keep printing while the older buildings were removed and the new one went up. The Vine Street facade reads like a column, with pilasters, paired windows, a pedimented roofline and gargoyles. Storefronts are clad in black and gold Italian marble with bronze detailing, and the entrance leads to a lobby of marble, travertine and bronze with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The building is valued as the newspaper's home since 1927, tied to the oldest Sunday newspaper in America, and as the work of a firm that designed many newspaper plants. Later refurbishment won a local architectural award, and the building's architectural integrity is described as unchanged.","period_of_significance":"1926-28","architect_builder":"Lockwood Greene & Co. (architects); Fuller & Co. (builders)","architectural_style":"Eclectic, with Romanesque, Art Deco, Gothic and Classical features","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Occupied and in commercial use; the form says it was completely refurbished inside and out after 1981 and the newspaper staff remained in the building, though the printing plant was relocated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.785823-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/85002787.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002787/a41927e3ce-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85002787/a41927e3ce-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CincinnatiEnquirer.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:CincinnatiEnquirer.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989233","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Enquirer_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5120245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/cincinnati-enquirer-building-85002787/"}