Detail View: Architecture and Urban Planning Collection: Courtland Flats

Work Record ID: 
2264
Reproduction Record ID: 
2264
Work Class: 
Architecture
Work Type: 
commercial building
Title: 
Courtstreet Building
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
Courtland Flats
Title Type: 
preferred
Material: 
brick (clay product)
Material Type: 
other
Date: 
1902
Date Type: 
completion date
Location: 
117-121 E. Court Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
Location: 
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Location Type: 
site
Style Period: 
Renaissance Revival
Culture: 
American
Subject: 
Cincinnati Preservation Association Easement Property
Subject: 
commercial buildings
Subject: 
historic buildings
Subject: 
National Register of Historic Places
Subject: 
central business districts
Description: 
"The Courtland Flats building is a notable and unusual example of the Second Renaissance Revival style in the downtown district. It was the first flat apartment Building to be constructed in this style in the downtown district. It was the first flat apartment building to be constructed in this style in downtown. Stylistically, Courtland Flats departs from the typical form of Second Renaissance Revival style with rustication, quoining, and a simple flat window treatment. Unlike those, this building emphasizes the window with elaborate projecting window heads. Echoing First Renaissance Revival period buildings, the window heads change from pediment in the third floor to segmented pediment on the fourth floor. Instead of quoining and rustication pilasters dominate the facade treatment. This building was built in 1902 for Christopher Sandheger, a prominent 19th-century liquor distiller. He helped make turn-of-the-century Cincinnati the leading whiskey producing city in the nation." Courtland Flats was added to the National Register of Historic Places in December 1984..
Information Source: 
Owen, Lauren K. (ed). Ohio Historic Places Dictionary, Volume II. Somerset Publishers, Inc, 1999. p. 584.
Reproduction Creator: 
Cincinnati Preservation Association
Reproduction Creator Type: 
donor
Reproduction Date: 
1984
Reproduction Date Type: 
creation
Reproduction View: 
View of living room with fireplace
Reproduction View Type: 
interior view
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
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