Underwriters Salvage Corps (Cincinnati, Ohio)


Underwriters Salvage Corps
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	110-112 E. 8th St., Cincinnati, Ohio
Coordinates	39°6′18″N 84°30′42″W / 39.10500°N 84.51167°W / 39.10500; -84.51167Coordinates: 39°6′18″N 84°30′42″W / 39.10500°N 84.51167°W / 39.10500; -84.51167
Area	less than one acre
Built	1897
Architect	William Schuberth
Architectural style	Queen Anne
NRHP Reference #	82003589^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 15, 1982

The Underwriters Salvage Corps is a historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located on Eighth Street in the city's downtown, it has historically been the home of a firm that worked together with both the Cincinnati Fire Department and local fire insurance companies.^[2]

Local insurance companies formed the Underwriters Salvage Corps in 1886 at the end of a four-year-long process of negotiations. As a salvage corps, their goal was largely to assist firefighters in danger zones: employees rushed to burning buildings to try to save both lives and property, and they were accorded the same status as official firefighters while at fire zones.^[2]

The present building was erected in 1897 under the direction of local contractor William Schuberth; its purpose was the storage of equipment and the housing of the Salvage Corps' employees who were on duty at any given point.^[2] A brick building with a stone foundation,^[3] it is a Queen Anne structure three-and-a-half stories tall.^[2]

In 1982, the Underwriters Salvage Corps was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1] Key to this designation was its place in local history,^[3] for it was the only Cincinnati-area corporation that worked closely with both insurance companies and the city's fire department.^[2]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 3 4 5 Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 1. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 681-682.
1 2 Underwriters Salvage Corps, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2010-11-02.

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