Over the past several months, I have become quite taken with old warehouses and industrial sites, specifically those with fine details of brick and wood. Hamilton can boast many fine examples, some of which are still in operation, some are being redeveloped and some are facing the wrecking ball. This tread only begins to capture the facilities accross town and I hope to add to it over time.

 

The Paper District

 

My grandmother worked in this building as a typist in the 50's

 

So grand

 

 

Champion was acquired by IP and now the B street plant is operated by Smart (I think thats how it went)

 

 

 

Black Street Bridge

 

 

 

Nice details

 

The old Beckett Mill was also acquired by IP, but was just acquired by Mohawk Fine Papers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of Hamilton's Municipal Power Plants

 

 

 

 

 

WOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

End Paper District

 

This building off B street would be perfect for lofts overlooking the river

 

 

This old warehouse was turned into office space

 

Likewise, this building saw major renovations

 

The Bennighoffen (sp?) Plant in the Lindenwald Business District

 

 

The Automatic Register Company in residential Lindenwald

 

 

The beautiful old Malthouse in Rossville

 

 

 

 

 

Hamilton Core Galleries

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 1 - Downtown

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10975.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 2 – Main Street Business District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5108.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 3 - Dayton Lane Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5269.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 4 - Rossville Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5417.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 5 - Glorious Old Industry

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6730.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 6 - German Village Historic District

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=6958.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 7 - Historic Highland Park

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7208.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 8 - Southeast Neighborhood

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=7309.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 9 - Prospect Hill and Grandview

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8025.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 10 - Forest Hills and Oak Park

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8107.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 11 - Greenwood Cemetery and St. Stephen's Cemetery

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8438.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 12 - Lindenwald

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9336.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 13 - Hyde Park and Verlyn Place

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8424.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 14 – Historic Images of City Life and Atmospheres

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8668.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 15 – Art Deco etc.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=8830.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 16 - The Gardens of Rossville

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9262.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 17 - The Northend and Fordson Heights

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9501.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 18 - The East Avenue Ghetto and Jefferson

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10146.0

 

Hamilton! - Gallery 19 - Butler County Soldiers, Sailors, and Pioneers Monument

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=10205.0

Awesome.

Great tour!

nice job!

So cool.  Those Niles Tool Works photos, where my father once worked although it was Baldwin Lima & Hamilton (something like that) by that time, are great!  I've always loved that building. Beckett & the woolen mill in Lindenwald are great too.

Great photos!  I'm absolutely drooling over the Malthouse.  I want something like that here in Cleveland so that we can convert it into lofts and artist studios.

fantastic -- old warehouses and factories rule!

 

ahh all the things you could do with those attractive old structures. someday.

Very interesting shots.

Very good, Ink....I, too, am quite taken by these old industrial structures.

 

A quick look at the OPLIN online Sanborn Map collections shows the Beckett Mill, and that it had a water supply for its machinery from an adjacent canal, that had a railroad trestle built over it!  The millrace went under the plant via a tunnel, according to the maps.

 

I'll bet these other old factories show up too on the Sanborns. 

 

A great tour.  Some really impressive old things there, really high quality 19th and early 20th century industrial construction.

 

 

 

    In photo no. 28 "Niles ....  Works" can be made out in faded paint on the front of the building.

 

    This may be the successor to Niles & Company, one of five factories in Cincinnati and Covington that manufactured locomotives. Niles Works eventually entered the machine tool industry and moved to Hamilton about 1872. As of 1965 the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation was building machine tools under the name Niles. 

 

    There is a chapter on Niles & Company in the book "Cincinnati Locomotive Builders, 1845 to 1868."

I love that Smart plant and the Black St. bridge area.  I seem to find myself cruising around there every time I go to Hamilton.

 

Great pics!

Impressive structures and fun tour Ink.  I too like the old industrial gems.  harkens back to the blue collar age so much of this country was involved in.  Thanks for the pics.

There is definitely some cool architecture there! Nice pictures.