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Description: Located 801 Plum St., City Hall occupies the entire block from 8th to 9th Sts, and from Plum St to Central Ave. A smaller building housed city council on the same site from 1852. Hannaford's Romanesque revival was dedicated May 13, 1893. Large stained glass windows by the New York firm Pottier Stymus & Co. depict the benevolent dictator Cincinnatus, the trials of early settlers, and Cincinnati as the Queen City of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Catawba Wine". Samuel Hannaford and Sons remains the most prolific and widely-studied Cincinnati architectural firm; a company register from the 1930s lists 1000 buildings completed, and Hannaford family members were active from 1857 to the post-WWII period. Reverse reads: "One of four stained glass windows located on the second floor of the Cincinnati City Hall (Plum Street entrance), measuring approximately 5 x 12 ft. with the following inscription: 'Building of the first log cabins --1788' Photo by Federal Writers' Photographer, District #12, Cincinnati, Ohio. June 7, 1937. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B03F12_020_1
Subjects: Cincinnati--Buildings, structures, etc. ; Hannaford, Samuel, 1835-1911 ; Stained glass
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)