The Procter and Collier–Beau Brummell Building is a registered historic building in

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...

. It is located at 440 East McMillan St in the Walnut Hills neighborhood.

History

It was designed by the Cincinnati architectural firm of Elzner & Anderson in the

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture, also known as mock Tudor in the UK, first manifested in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture, in rea ...

style and built in 1921 for the Procter and Collier advertising agency. The Beau Brummell clothing company moved into the building in 1936 and used it to manufacture men’s neckties until the company closed in 1982. The Beau Brummell Company, named for the 19th century dandy known for his elegant clothing, was founded by Harry and Edward Weisbaum and Sam A. Brower in 1923. They once had 150 workers making ties in the building. By 1982, there were 40 employees. “We don’t usually give up on an operation,” Daniel Manella, Vice President of New York-based Rapid-American Corp. told the Cincinnati Post in 1982. “Especially an old, established company, but it got to a point where it made very poor business sense to continue.”

Union Institute & University Union Institute & University (UI&U) was a private online university that was headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It also operated satellite campuses in Florida and California. In early 2023, it began to experience severe financial challenge ...

acquired the structure in 1989 and restored the historic building. It was listed on the National Register on October 18, 1984. In 2021, Union Institute & University sold the building to the

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati, informally Cincy) is a public university, public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1819 and had an enrollment of over 53,000 students in 2024, making it the ...

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