Cincinnati, OHIO - Hotel Alms

Description: Cincinnati, OHIO - Hotel Alms: In 1891, Frederick Alms built a large apartment building on McMillan, just across Elmwood Place (later renamed Alms Place, now Victory Parkway) from his palatial home. In about 1894 Frederick Alms styled the building as the Hotel Alms. The distinctions among apartments with services, residential hotels, and what were then called “transient” hotels for short-term visitors were considerably more fluid at the time than they are today. The Alms seems always to have filled all three roles, serving as a permanent address for some residents. For almost 35 years after the original Hotel Alms went up in 1891, the physical plant grew in regular, substantial increments. Indeed, expansion plans proliferated at a such a rate that a couple of major additions got to the point of architectural drawings but gave way to alternative and more elegant construction. By 1904, the Sanford maps show a second, four-story building set back from the side street, by that time renamed Alms Place in honor of the deceased Frederick Alms. The ground floor comprised dining rooms; above there were new hotel rooms. Sometime around the early 1920’s, the Samuel Hannaford and Sons architectural firm drew up plans for a nine-story addition, wedged in on McMillan Street, right up to the sidewalk and dwarfing the original 1891 building, on the part of the lot occupied for a quarter-century by the ballroom. The plan would have changed the character of the hotel from the original airy suburban feel to a more crowded urban setting consonant with Peebles Corner a few blocks to the west. Anticipating this road project, in 1925, the Alms Hotel built a new nine-story building facing the Parkway at the north end of the block, at the intersection of Victory and Locust. This Linen Era (1930-45) postcard is in good condition. Kramer Art Company. Cincinnati, Ohio. No. 48262.

Price: 8.5 USD

Location: Brooklyn, New York

End Time: 2025-01-29T03:42:18.000Z

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