{"nrhp_refnum":"86003521","name":"B & O Freight Terminal","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"700 Pete Rose Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":39.09561303400005,"lon":-84.52431065899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-12-29","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large brick railroad freight storage building with Romanesque details at 700 Pete Rose Way (2nd Street) in Cincinnati, Ohio, built in 1904 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with a nearby brick scale building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a unique example of functional railroad architecture embellished with Romanesque Revival details, made notable by its exceptional length. It also illustrates how railroads moved and stored freight in Cincinnati when rail dominated freight transport. The terminal and scale building are described as important survivors of a vanishing type of specialized railroad building.","narrative":"Stretching roughly 1,160 feet along Pete Rose Way west of downtown Cincinnati, this five-story brick freight terminal was built in 1904 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Architect M. A. Long, a railroad employee, designed it with rock-faced limestone columns on the first floor, engaged brick columns above, large semicircular arches on the fourth floor, and machicolations along the roofline. It replaced several obsolete warehouses and was meant to handle growth in Cincinnati's role as a shipping and transfer point. Freight came off rail cars on the north side, was stored, and then went onto wagons and later trucks on the south side. Outbound loads were weighed at a separate scale building nearby. The terminal originally measured 1,277 feet, but about 150 feet was removed in 1961 for the elevated interstate, and a fire destroyed part of the fifth floor. It was listed for its architecture and for its record of railroad freight handling.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"M. A. Long (architect employed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival details","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in good condition and altered, with mixed use; the nearby scale building is described as deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:15.146008-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/86003521.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003521/80eada0001-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003521/80eada0001-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Photo by Greg Hume (Greg5030)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BandOFreightTerminal.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:BandOFreightTerminal.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71988967","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longworth_Hall","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4836932"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/b-and-o-freight-terminal-86003521/"}