The Domhoff Buildings are a pair of historic

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neighborhood of

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. Designed by architect W.W. Franklin, the two buildings are located on one corner of the junction of

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and Chase Avenues, that neighborhood's most important intersection.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 1.

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: Somerset, 1999, 589-590. Charles Henry Domhoff was a manufacturing magnate in late nineteenth-century Cincinnati. After joining a firm known as Addy, Hall, and Company in 1871, a company that manufactured

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in the Cincinnati area, he became its

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in 1888. Seven years later, he branched out on his own, founding the Domhoff and Joyce Company to manufacture pig iron and coke. While a partner with the Addy Company, he purchased a lot on the corner of Hamilton and Chase Avenues and arranged for the construction of two commercial buildings on the site. Completed in 1893, the two buildings are built of brick with metal roofs and minor elements of stone and metal.,

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, 2007. Accessed 2011-02-25. The two four-

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structures were erected adjacent to each other, with only a small service yard separating them; the streetside portions of the buildings have room for five businesses, while the upper floors are divided into seventeen

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s. Neither building fits clearly into any single

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: because they were erected at a time when the

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style was losing favor and the Queen Anne style was becoming more common, they display some elements of each style. In 1980, the Domhoff Buildings were listed on the

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, qualifying for this distinction because of their well preserved historic architecture.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Commercial buildings completed in 1893 Buildings and structures in Cincinnati Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio Italianate architecture in Ohio National Register of Historic Places in Cincinnati Queen Anne architecture in Ohio