The Cincinnati Enquirer Building is the former headquarters building of ''

The Cincinnati Enquirer ''The Cincinnati Enquirer'' is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. First published in 1841, the ''Enquirer'' is the last remaining daily newspaper in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, altho ...

'' on

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in downtown

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. It was designed by the firm of

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and completed in 1926. The newspaper had been published from premises on the same site since 1866.Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 1.

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: Somerset, 1999, 574. Built primarily of

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, 2007. Accessed 2010-12-03. and measuring fourteen stories tall, the Enquirer Building was built to house both commercial offices and publishing facilities. Lockwood Greene's architects designed the building in a mixture of

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s; among its most distinctive features include the first-floor storefronts, the recessed central main entrance, and

marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite. Marble is typically not foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the term ''marble'' refers to metamorpho ...

stonework with a Christmas tree with bronze details. The building is shown as the home of WKRP in the 1978-1982 television series ''

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'' and its 1991-1993 sequel ''

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''. However, the building was referred to as the fictional Osgood R. Flimm Building. In 1975, the Enquirer Building was listed on the

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, due to its place in local history and architecture. The newspaper's printing facilities moved to a new property at the intersection of Western Avenue and Liberty Street in 1979, and the offices to 312 Elm Street in 1992. In 2015, the Cincinnati Enquirer Building was divided into two hotels, each containing over 100 rooms.

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