Duke Energy Building

{{Short description|Historic 18-story structure in Cincinnati, Ohio}}

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| image_caption = The Fourth Street entrance

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| location_city = Cincinnati, Ohio

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| completion_date = 1929

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| height = {{convert|269.03|ft}}

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| architect = Garber & Woodward and John Russell Pope

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| known_for = Location of Cincinnati's first white child birth

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The Duke Energy Building (formerly the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company Building) is a historic, 18-story, {{convert|269|ft||adj=mid|-tall}} structure in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was designed by Cincinnati architectural firm Garber & Woodward and John Russell Pope.

History

The neoclassical tower was completed in 1929 for the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company and served as the company's headquarters until its merger with Duke Energy in 2006.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dW-52BWC4LoC&pg=PA172 | title=Cincinnati, a Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors | author=Federal Writers' Project | author-link=Federal Writers' Project | year=1943 | pages=172| publisher=Best Books on | isbn=9781623760519 }} From 1946 to 2011, CG&E sponsored an annual holiday model train display in the building's first-floor lobby.

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