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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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