Time Hill: Difference between revisions

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| caption = Side of the building

| location = 401 E. McMillan St., [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]]

| coordinates = {{coord|39|7|33|N|84|30|6|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Ohio#USA

| built = {{Start date|1916}}

| architect = Guy Channing Burroughs; Burroughs and Deeken

| architecture = [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor Revival]]

| added = February 29, 1996

| area = {{convert|0.2|acre}}

| refnum = 96000219<ref name=nris>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

'''Time Hill''', the former offices of the Gruen Watch Company, is a historic building in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], [[United States]].

When completed in 1916, Time Hill was divided primarily into large rooms in which watchmakers sat at manufacturing desks under high ceilings with visible beams. The grand lobby, two [[storey|stories]] tall, featured a [[mahogany]] staircase and a fireplace covered with [[Rookwood Pottery Company|Rookwood tile]].<ref name=magazine>Tate, Skip. "A Contemporary School Rebuilds the Past". ''Cincinnati Magazine'' 29.7 (1996): 72-74.</ref>{{rp|73}} The building sits elevated from McMillan Street, with a steep [[gable]]d roof parallel to the street and brick walls covered with [[half-timbering]]. It rests on an asphalt [[foundation (engineering)|foundation]], while the roof is ceramic tile.<ref>{{OHC NRHP|96000219|Gruen Watch Company-Time Hill}}, [[Ohio Historical Society]], 2007. Accessed 2017-03-24.</ref>

During the 1990s, Time Hill was occupied by an insurance firm, which subjected the building to an abortive attempt to create a modernistic office complex in the interior; nearly all of the interior was removed and replaced with new styling. After the venture failed, the building was sold at [[sheriff's sale]] to [[Union Institute & University]],<ref name=magazine />{{rp|73}} which already owned the similarly styled [[Procter and Collier-Beau Brummell Building]] across the street; a primarily [[Distance education|online university]], Union was outgrowing its space in the Brummell Building and bought Time Hill with intentions of converting it into the university's headquarters.<ref name=magazine />{{rp|72}}

In 1996, Time Hill was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], qualifying both because of its place in local history and because of its historically significant architecture. The adjacent Brummell Building was given the same honor twelve years earlier.<ref name=nris />

==References==

{{National Register of Historic Places}}

[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1916]]

[[Category:Manufacturing plants in the United States]]

[[Category:Tudor Revival architectureinOhio]]

[[Category:Union Institute & University]]

[[Category:Watch manufacturing companies of the United States]]