Cincinnati Times-Star Building

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}  {{Infobox NRHP | name = Times-Star Building | image = Cincinnati-800-broadway.jpg | caption = Times-Star Building in Cincinnati, Ohio, which now houses the Hamilton County probation and domestic relations departments. | location = Cincinnati, Ohio | architect = Samuel Hannaford & Sons <ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007b}}</ref> | architecture = Art Deco<ref name="nris"/> | added = November 25, 1983<ref name="nris"/> | coordinates = {{coord|39|6|19.71|N|84|30|26.06|W|display=inline,title}} | refnum = 83004309<ref name="nris"/> }}

'''Cincinnati Times-Star Building''' aka '''Times-Star Building''' at 800 Broadway Street in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a registered historic building. It was listed in the National Register on November 25, 1983. It was built in 1933 and was designed by the firm of Samuel Hannaford & Sons in the Art Deco style. The limestone building has 15 stories with a basement and sub-basement beneath. There is no 13th floor as superstitions ran high during this time period. Much of the decorated facade pays homage to the printing and publishing businesses. Two hundred feet above the street stand four pillars at each of the tower's corners; they represent patriotism, truth, speed, and progress. thumb|Bronze and Nickel Doors with Enamel decoration of Times-Star Building The newspaper plant occupied the first six stories. The floors above were offices. The ''Cincinnati Times-Star'' was an outgrowth of several newspapers and was owned by Cincinnati's Taft family. Charles Phelps Taft was editor.

Before moving into the Times-Star Building on Broadway on January 1, 1933, the newspaper's offices were on Sixth and Walnut streets.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WR4DAAAAMBAJ&dq=Cincinnati+Times-Star+Building&pg=PA56 | title=Hulbert Taft's Missing Editorial | work=Cincinnati Magazine | date=December 1984 | accessdate=27 November 2013 | author=Hurter, Jerry | pages=56}}</ref>

When the ''Times-Star'' folded in 1958, its assets were purchased by its rival, ''The Cincinnati Post'', who moved into the building and occupied it until 1984.<ref>{{cite web|last=Suess|first=Jeff|title=Did you know? Times-Star Building is news icon|url=http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130113/NEWS01/301130103/Did-you-know-Times-Star-Building-news-icon|publisher=Cincinnati Enquirer|accessdate=20 January 2013}}</ref> Hamilton County bought the building in the late 1980s and renamed it the 800 Broadway Building. It is used for county offices and by the juvenile court.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hamiltoncountyohio.gov/facilities/broadway.asp |title=Hamilton County Facilities Department |accessdate=2013-07-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203062854/http://www.hamiltoncountyohio.gov/facilities/broadway.asp |archivedate=2012-12-03 }}</ref>

The building is ornamented with bronze and nickel silver grilles, over the windows, front entrance, and lobby interior. thumb|Cast Bronze and Nickel Entrance Grille of the Times-Star Building thumb|Bronze Grille over Entrance, with Nickel Silver Figures from Printing Industry.

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==Further reading== *''Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors'', American Guide Series, Weisen-Hart Press, May 1943, page 198.

==External links== {{commonscat-inline}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001453/http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/gsdl/collect/greaterc/archives/HASH0155/e2dcc990.dir/cht000057hanna.jpg Cincinnati Times-Star Building circa 1933] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083855/http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/gsdl/collect/greaterc/archives/HASH01a5/9006bc8c.dir/ocp003336pccnb.jpg Old Times-Star Building] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929084204/http://www.cincinnatimemory.org/gsdl/collect/greaterc/archives/HASH9be1.dir/cht000056hanna.jpg Main entrance of the Times-Star building] *[https://www.daapspace.daap.uc.edu/mediadb/detail?work_id=1118 Documentation from the University of Cincinnati]{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Category:Newspaper headquarters in the United States Category:Newspaper buildings Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Cincinnati Category:Art Deco skyscrapers Category:Art Deco architecture in Ohio Category:National Register of Historic Places in Cincinnati Category:Manufacturing plants in the United States Category:Limestone buildings in the United States Category:1933 establishments in Ohio