National Register of Historic Places
Manse Hotel and Manse Hotel Annex
Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
The record
- Listed
- August 9, 2019
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 916-926 Chapel Street, 1004 Chapel Street, Cincinnati
- County
- Hamilton
- State
- Ohio
- Contributing resources
- 2 buildings
- Coordinates
- 39.13139, -84.48697
- Reference number
- 100004232
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The story
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The Manse Hotel and Manse Hotel Annex are two buildings at 916-926 and 1004 Chapel Street in Cincinnati. The main building began as a house built around 1876 in the Second Empire and German brick vernacular styles, with Samuel Desjardins and Albert Hayward named as architects.
Why it's listed
It was listed under criterion A, with local-level significance in Black ethnic heritage and social history. Its significance runs from 1931, when Horace Sudduth purchased the property, to 1961, when his daughters transferred it.
Physical character
Brick walls rise from a coursed rubble stone foundation to a mansard roof with corbelled brick medallions and a bay window, while the annex is built in a Modernist vernacular and Art Moderne style with concrete block walls under a flat roof. The hotel gained a four-story brick tower between 1947 and 1950, and a 1971-1972 renovation converted it to apartments.
Historical context
Sudduth's Manse Hotel hosted the NAACP's 37th national conference in 1946 and gave James Brown lodging in 1956 while he recorded Please, Please, Please. A 1939 fire displaced eight African American families, and in 1972 Horvena Alexander sold the hotel and annex to Walnut Hills Apartments, which converted the complex into affordable housing.