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Hoodin Building

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Built
  
1881

NRHP Reference #
  
79002708

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

MPS
  
Columbia-Tusculum MRA

Opened
  
1881

Added to NRHP
  
24 August 1979

Hoodin Building

Location
  
3719-3725 Eastern Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio

Area
  
Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)

Similar
  
Landt Building, Kellogg House, Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical, Coney Island, Contemporary Arts Center

The Hoodin Building was a historic apartment building in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1881, it was once one of the neighborhood's most prestigious addresses. Despite its designation as a historic site, it is no longer standing.

Measuring two-and-a-half stories tall, the Hoodin Building was an Italianate structure with weatherboarded walls and a foundation of fieldstone. A raised basement necessitated the construction of wooden stairways to permit access to the building's front porches, both of which were heavily ornamented. Besides the porches, the building featured such details as a cornice with brackets, a symmetrical facade, and pedimented lintels above the windows of the second story. For this reason, a 1978 historic preservation survey found the building distinctive enough for special mention.

In 1979, the Hoodin Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its historically significant architecture, which was deemed to be in excellent condition. It was one of seventeen Columbia-Tusculum properties included in a multiple property submission related to the previous year's historic preservation survey; most of the properties were buildings, but the Columbia Baptist and Fulton-Presbyterian Cemeteries were also included. Despite this distinction, the Hoodin has been demolished; the site is now an empty lot. Nevertheless, the building remains listed on the National Register.

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Hoodin Building Wikipedia