Description: Reverse reads: "Garden view at Hotel Alms, Cincinnati Ohio" Department store magnate Frederick H. Alms built the Hotel Alms in Walnut Hills in 1891, and expanded it in 1925 to house the radio station WKRC. NWC Victory Parkway and E. McMillan St. Harry Hake founded a Cincinnati architecture firm that persisted from 1897 to 1978, through three generations of Hake architects, designing Crosley Field and the Ohio State University Library. His work is noted for wittily applying historical forms -- usually Beaux-Arts or Arts and Crafts -- to modern structures. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_009_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Hotels--Ohio--Walnut Hills (Cincinnati); Hake, Harry Sr., 1871-1955
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Department store magnate Frederick H. Alms built the Hotel Alms in Walnut Hills in 1891, and expanded it in 1925 to house the radio station WKRC. NWC Victory Parkway and E. McMillan St. Harry Hake founded a Cincinnati architecture firm that persisted from 1897 to 1978, through three generations of Hake architects, designing Crosley Field and the Ohio State University Library. His work is noted for wittily applying historical forms -- usually Beaux-Arts or Arts and Crafts -- to modern structures. Reverse reads: "Inside Hotel Alms Cincinnati Ohio" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_010_1
Subjects: Hotels--Ohio--Walnut Hills (Cincinnati); Hake, Harry Sr., 1871-1955
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Department store magnate Frederick H. Alms built the Hotel Alms in Walnut Hills in 1891, and expanded it in 1925 to house the radio station WKRC. NWC Victory Parkway and E. McMillan St. Harry Hake founded a Cincinnati architecture firm that persisted from 1897 to 1978, through three generations of Hake architects, designing Crosley Field and the Ohio State University Library. His work is noted for wittily applying historical forms -- usually Beaux-Arts or Arts and Crafts -- to modern structures. Reverse reads: "Inside view Hotel Alms CinCinnati Ohio" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_006_1
Subjects: Hotels--Ohio--Walnut Hills (Cincinnati); Hake, Harry Sr., 1871-1955
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Department store magnate Frederick H. Alms built the Alms Apartments in Walnut Hills in 1891, which later became Hotel Alms. The still standing annex building, now the Alms Hill Apartments, was designed by Henry Hake and erected in 1925. The Cincinnati Times-Star radio station WKRC operated inside. The original structure, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons, was located at Victory Parkway (the U.S. 50) and East McMillan Street, and the annex, as shown in the photograph, at the corner of Victory Parkway and Locust Street (now William Howard Taft Road). Harry Hake founded a Cincinnati architecture firm that persisted from 1897 to 1978, through three generations of Hake architects, designing Crosley Field and the Ohio State University Library. His work is noted for wittily applying historical forms to modern structures, usually Beaux-Arts or Arts and Crafts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_028_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Hotels--Ohio--Walnut Hills (Cincinnati); Hake, Harry Sr., 1871-1955
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)