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Description: In 1899, plans were announced to replace the Gibson House in Cincinnati with a modern hotel. Finished in 1913, the new Hotel Gibson, later known as the Sheraton-Gibson Hotel, was a Neo-Classical style high rise building designed by architect Gustave W. Drach. Located in the Fountain Square area of downtown Cincinnati, the fifteen story, 1,000 room hotel offered guests an air-conditioned restaurant, a bowling alley, a barber shop, guest rooms and meeting rooms. The building was later torn down to make way for the US Bank Tower/Westin Hotel, built in 1981. Drach was among Cincinnati's most important architects, pioneering the use of steel-reinforced concrete. By 1905, 75,000 square feet of building space drawn by Drach was under construction in Cincinnati. Reverse reads: "Sidewalk cafe in the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F14_012
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc. ; Drach, Gustave W., 1861-1940.
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)