Fourth & Walnut Center

Architect
D. H. Burnham & Company
Year
1904
Style
Chicago School
City
Cincinnati, OH
Fourth & Walnut Center
Photo: Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States, CC0
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Fourth & Walnut Center is a 1904 downtown Cincinnati office tower designed by D. H. Burnham & Company, a nationally significant architecture firm, in the Chicago School idiom. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

the building

Chicago School construction. The building employs early skyscraper construction techniques typical of the Chicago School, the structural approach pioneered in Burnham's home city that made tall commercial towers possible.

the style

Fourth & Walnut Center is built in the Chicago School style, the idiom associated with early skyscraper construction and closely tied to Burnham's firm's origins in Chicago.

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the architect

D. H. Burnham & Company was a nationally significant architecture firm; the firm also designed Cincinnati's Bartlett Building.

significance

The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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