Detail View: Architecture and Urban Planning Collection: Lunken Airport

Work Record ID: 
54
Reproduction Record ID: 
54
Work Class: 
Architecture
Work Type: 
administration building
Work Type: 
airport
Work Type: 
passenger terminal
Title: 
Lunken Airport
Title Type: 
preferred
Material: 
brick
Material Type: 
other
Material: 
limestone
Material Type: 
other
Creator: 
Kruckemeyer & Strong, active early to mid 20th century
Creator Nationality: 
American
Creator Type: 
corporate
Creator Role: 
architect
Date: 
1937
Date Type: 
completion date
Location: 
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Location Type: 
site
Location: 
262 Wilmer Avenue (Cincinnati, Ohio, 45226)
Style Period: 
Art Deco
Culture: 
American
Subject: 
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Subject: 
airports
Subject: 
passenger terminals
Subject: 
United States. Works Progress Administration.
Description: 
Lunken Airport was constructed from 1936 to 1937. The Administration Building features a two story lobby with two murals produced as part of the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project by artist William Henry Gothard (1908-1968) during the Great Depression. The building was finished in 1937, the same year a major flood destroyed many of the art deco details of the interior. The building was rebuilt before World War II, but many of the original details were not replaced. Lunken Field was Cincinnati's major airport until 1947 when commercial passenger flights began to operate from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport in nearby Boone County, Kentucky.
Information Source: 
Painter, Sue Ann. Architecture in Cincinnati. Athens. Ohio: Ohio University Press with the Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati, 2006. 205.
Reproduction Creator: 
Flischel, Robert A.
Reproduction Creator Type: 
donor
Reproduction View: 
Front facade
Reproduction View Type: 
exterior view
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
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