Butterfield Center

{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} The '''Butterfield Center''' is a New Brutalist structure in downtown Cincinnati.

Designed by University of Cincinnati architecture professors [http://www.daap.uc.edu/people/profiles/smithdl David Lee Smith]and Donald E. Stevens, the building promotes the structural and systems materials (concrete, ductwork, etc.) themselves by leaving them exposed.<ref name="Cincinnati Enquirer 2006">''Cincinnati Enquirer'', June 25, 2006, "A New Home"</ref>

The Butterfield Recreation Center (also known as the Butterfield Nutrition Center, also known as the Butterfield Senior Center) was closed in 2004 as a result of push to cut $4.2 million from the budgets of several city departments<ref>''Cincinnati Enquirer,'' September 16, 2004, "Cincinnati to cut $4.2M more".</ref>

In 2005, design firm Libby Perszyk Kathman (LPK) purchased the Butterfield Center along with the Marcus Fechheimer House, with the vision to conjoin the buildings and create a new headquarters and meeting space.

The Fechheimer House, which is also known locally as the Cuvier Press Club, also served as a part of the senior citizens' center from 1977 until 2004.<ref>''Cincinnati Enquirer'', January 28, 2005, "Design firm proposes to buy ex-senior center"</ref> LPK restored the Fechheimer mansion and commissioned Cincinnati firm FRCH Design Worldwide to plan the design for the connection of the two buildings.<ref name="Cincinnati Enquirer 2006" />

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Category:Buildings and structures in Cincinnati