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Historic Mt Auburn building demolished after roof collapse

Historic Mt. Auburn building demolished after roof collapse Matt Wood, WCPO The building was originally constructed in the early 1870s as a powerhouse for the cable cars transporting passengers from downtown to suburban Mt. Auburn, according to the Cincinnati Preservation Association. and last updated 2021-02-27 14:54:52-05 CINCINNATI — Demolition has started on a building with almost 150 years of history in Mt. Auburn. The Mt. Auburn Cable Car Building at the corner of Dorchester and Highland started to come down on Monday when accumulated snow caused a partial collapse of the roof, according to the Cincinnati Fire Department. Building contractors were on site during the collapse but no one was injured.

Building with centuries of Cincinnati history demolished in Mt Auburn

The Little-Known Story Behind Cincinnati s Terrace Plaza Hotel

The Little-Known Story Behind Cincinnati’s Terrace Plaza Hotel Laura Itzkowitz © Ezra Stoller Inside the Gourmet Restaurant at the Terrace Plaza Hotel designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, featuring a mural by Joan Miro which has since been relocated to The Cincinnati Art Museum. (Photograph by Ezra Stoller. © National Trust for Historic Preservation) Have you ever heard of the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati? Built in 1948 by the then emerging architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, it was America’s first hotel in the postwar era. Its sky lobby a revolutionary idea sat on the eighth floor, above a department store. It was the first hotel to have elevators without operators in them, the first to have rooms with individual temperature controls, and it even had sofas that would convert to beds at the push of a button.

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