City - Cincinnati, OH - Ingall's building 1905 - Side by Side

by Mike Savad

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City - Cincinnati, OH - Ingall's building 1905 - Side by Side

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Mike Savad

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Photograph - Colorize Photo

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Hand colored photo from 1905
Original title: Ingall's building
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 6 E 4th St, Cincinnati, OH

Because this building and a few others exist, I was able to get color from that. There isn't a lot of things to point out on this, but there is a small sign on the roof just tossed aside for some reason.

This large structure is called the Ingall's building, located in business district in Cincinnati, Ohio. What makes this building unique is that its the first tall building that used reinforced concrete. It was designed by the Cincinnati architectural firm Elzner & Anderson and was named for its primary financial investor, Melville E. Ingalls. It stands 16 story's tall, and in its day was considered a daring engineering feat. It took 2 years to convince City hall that it would work and they finally got their permit. Thanks to this idea, the use of concrete was used in many projects from that point forward.

Before this building, the tallest concrete structure was only six story's tall. Being that concrete has a very low tensile strength, many were afraid that the wind or just the height of the building would make the entire structure collapse under its own weight.

The building was built around forms, reinforcing bars were placed between the molds, and the mortar was made looser than usual to let it flow around the metal parts, all the bars were linked to each other from beam to wall to floor. The invention of adding metal to concrete walls was invented in 1884 if you were wondering. A real advantage to this method was that it was a lot cheaper than traditional methods using iron, and it was fire proof.

On the day they finally removed all the molds, a single reporter slept outside the building overnight, convinced the building would fall, and he would be the first one there to report on it. That morning he found that it didn't fall down at all. Not only did it not fall down the next day, its still here today, a 120 years later, and its an historic landmark.

As for the other buildings around it, those are all still there, minus the one with the red and yellow sign and everything on the left side. The Emery Arcade was at the very left, and Mabley Carew at the end of the block on the left.

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