dglenn

The address is 1725 Vine....for some reason the Auditor's website doesn't have a record of the building though, so I'll have to find a pic elsewhere. Here's a quote on the building from an article online: "Of the buildings owned by the company, the grandest is Kauffman Brewery Co. at 1725 Vine St. The 1876 structure once housed brewery workers in elegant Italianate style; it has a three-story atrium with a floor made of glass circles like beer-bottle bottoms."

Cool, I will try to get a pic posted ASAP, thanks for your interest. By the way, I love your logo...maybe CM would be interested in occupying the old Kauffman Brewery when they bring their operations back to Cincy :)

As some of you may know, the historic Kauffman Brewery on Vine Street in Over-the-Rhine is under threat of demolition. This is a large structure that has great historical and cultural value, as well as immense potential for redevelopment, but time is running out because a couple of fires have led the building to be condemed. The Black Theatre Company has expressed interest in buying and rehabbing the facility, but at this point no deal has been worked out, and my understanding is that it's doubtful they'll have the necessary funds to pull it off alone. The point of this post is to try to garner some interest in the plight of this building, and to see if something can be done. I, for one, will be extremely disheartened if we lose yet another historic building in OTR. I know that many of you take great interest in our city, and I think that if we would pool our resources and effort around some issues, we could have a tremendous impact. Please let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions for saving the Kauffman brewery, or if you'd like to do something to help. I was thinking that a $10 donation from members of forums like Urban Ohio and Cincinnati Tomorrow (and perhaps also from other organizations) could raise a very substantial sum of money and contribute to the stabilization of the building, thus saving it from demolition. I recognize this may be impractical, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Let me know what you think! Danny Klingler [email protected]

Did Club Clau really close?

If you're interested in the growth of Cincinnati circa 1880-1920, I highly recommend the first three chapters of "Boss Cox's Cincinnati" by Zane Miller. Great info on how Cincinnati changed from a dense "walking city" to a more suburban one.