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The Cincinnatian Hotel
The 1882 Palace Hotel, then Cincinnati's tallest building and the oldest in the city we list built as a hotel; its walnut grand staircase survives.
- Built
- 1882Built 1882 as the Palace Hotel, an eight-story French Second Empire hotel; renovated 1987 and remodeled 2018.
- Style
- Second Empire
- Architect
- Samuel Hannaford
- Type
- Grand hotel
- Rooms
- 148
- Area
- Downtown
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
The hotel opened in 1882 as the Palace Hotel, then the tallest building in Cincinnati, with electric lights and hydraulic elevators and 300 rooms sharing baths at each end of the corridors. It was renamed the Palace Hotel Cincinnatian in 1948 and the Hotel Cincinnatian in 1951. A $25 million renovation in 1987 added a glass-domed atrium and cut the room count roughly in half. SREE Hotels bought it in 2017 and reopened it under Hilton’s Curio Collection after a 2018 remodel; the marble and walnut grand staircase survives.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site paid
- No pets
- Address: 601 Vine Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.