Brittany Apartment Building - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Brittany Apartment Building - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Brittany Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A Queen Anne structure constructed in 1885, it is a six-story rectangular structure with a flat roof,Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 568. built with brick walls and elements of wood and sandstone., Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2010-10-04. It was built by the firm of Thomas Emery's Sons,Gordon, Stephen C., and Elisabeth H. Tuttle. . National Park Service, 1978-12-11. Accessed 2010-10-04. Cincinnati's leading real estate developers during the 1880s. It is one of four large apartment complexes erected by the Emerys during the 1880s; only the Brittany and the Lombardy Apartment Buildings have endured to the present day. Both the Lombardy and the Brittany were built in 1885 according to designs by Samuel Hannaford; at that time, his independent architectural practice was gaining great prominence in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. Read more on Wikipedia
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