My heart sank when I learned this building had been demolished.  Its luck ran out before people came to its aid.

 

Bird's eye:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qhj12h7yqk35&scene=41226510&lvl=1&sty=b&where1=100-104%20E%20Court%20St%2C%20Cincinnati%2C%20OH%2045202-1204

 

No más!

 

1883-?

 

Now

 

That is a shame! Correct me if I'm wrong, that's been gone for quite some time now.  That's the County Admin building nextdoor, right?

Yeah I think it's been decades. This is the site where I found the photo:

http://www.daapspace.daap.uc.edu/mediadb/detail?work_id=1013&media_id=ed547948fb03f83c0df0bb6ccaeb7d73 

100-104 E. Court Street (Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202)

 

Probably was never on the National Register either.

 

Just goes to show how completely conscienceless people can be.  It'd be bad enough it was replaced by some piece of garbage, but a parking lot? REALLY?!

I too used to LOVE this building.  There was just something about how well it was proportioned.  I believe it was lost sometime in the early-mid 90's.

CAGIS shows this building still there in 1996, so it appears to have been torn down sometime in the late 1990s.

At least the property is now an attractive surface parking lot.

What a shame.

That is lame.  Still hard as hell to find parking over there sometimes.

rofl at posting a counting crows song.  I stay out of cabs as much as possible.  i stay away from the justice center as much as possible as well.

Wow, that certainly was a beautiful building.  I can't even begin to wrap my head around the thought that there must be 100s, if not 1000s, of buildings like it that have been lost already in downtown.  Its kind of depressing to see it though.  That area has been a parking lot for as long as I can remember (at least the mid 1990s when I started coming down there alot).  This is a prime example of why we have to be so aggressive now with preventing these sort of senseless demolitions in the future.

 

But, keep in mind that compared to many, many other cities, Cincinnati has been suprisingly lucky to have retained as many of its historic structures as it has.  You can't find anything like the buildings in OTR anywhere in Detroit for instance.  There's one small strip of old italianate buildings there by the old Tiger's stadium that probably only represents about 0.0000001% of what used to be around that city.  Detroit supposedly bulldozed many of their old neighborhoods in the 70s and 80s. 

Thank goodness Cincinnati wasn't that stupid!

This building was technically not in OTR, because it was on the south side of Central Parkway, so it couldn't have been a contributing structure to the historic district, but it surely could have been historic by itself if anyone would have tried. 

 

And I've always been able to find a spot to park on the street, if I only need to be there for an hour or two, which is every time I've had to be there during the day (normally the DMV, I try to keep out of the "justice" center as much as possible).