Northern Downtown

The tallest building in Cincinnati at the time it was built, the hotel was designed in the spirit of the Grand Hotels of Europe.

One of the first mixed use projects in the US, the 7-story base housed 2 department stores, and the hotel lobby was located on the 8th floor with 10 floors of hotel rooms above.

The congregation was led by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the founder of Reform Judaism in North America.

It was the second permanent cathedral built in the US.

In 1884, Cincinnati experienced a courthouse riot followed by a labor riot two years later.

The building was the home of Crosley Broadcasting and WLWT, the first federally licensed television station in Ohio.

It was the only major commercial building constructed to house doctors' offices.

It is one of the longest continuously operating churches in the downtown core.

The building was one of the first speculative office buildings constructed in Cincinnati.

The building was financed by Cornelius Vanderbilt II and was named after his wife, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt.

The original design was the first major building to embrace the City's skywalk system by locating all major public functions at the skywalk level.

The building became the anchor of the new Entertainment District created by the City to help revitalize the downtown area.

It is the first building in the US for the internationally renowned, Iraqi born, female architect from London.