Horace Sudduth: Businessman, Philanthropist, WH Resident
Horace Sudduth (1888-1957) was one of the most influential businessmen in Cincinnati. His work in real estate — both in the West End and in Continue Reading
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Businesses
Horace Sudduth, Cincinnati City Council, and the Universal Negro Improvement Association 1921
Horace Sudduth has generally been cast as a businessman who steered clear of politics. In 1921, however, Sudduth was willing to run for Cincinnati City Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth and Real Estate as Investment and Wealth in the Black Community
We have seen in the previous posts that Horace Sudduth served as his community’s Real Estate agent, selling hundreds of homes to Black owner-occupants. Sudduth’s Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth – Single Family Homes in the West End and Walnut Hills
Horace Sudduth served the communities in the West End and Walnut Hills as “our real estate agent”, in the words of Wendell Dabney, the Black Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth and the Industrial Building and Loan Corporation
Horace Sudduth founded the Industrial Building and Loan Corporation in December 1919. Its main office was in Sudduth’s West End real estate office, but from Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth and Black Tenement Housing on Walnut Hills
When Horace Sudduth began working in the Walnut Hills market, he played much the same role dealing in and managing tenements as he had downtown. Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth’s Charitable Work during the 1910s
In the previous post we looked at Horace Sudduth’s business dealings in the West End during the 1910’s. We also noted that the Lincoln Theater, Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth’s Real Estate Services in the West End during the 1910s
When Horace and Melvina Sudduth moved to Cincinnati in 1910, they settled in the West End downtown. The last of the wealthy neighborhoods in the Continue Reading
Horace Sudduth Real Estate
Horace Sudduth (1888-1957) was the wealthiest African American of his generation in Cincinnati, and its most influential Black businessperson. Like the nineteenth century Black coal Continue Reading
A Walnut Hills baseball story: Small boys, a Championship, and a little PR
In the 1910s Gilbert Avenue became an auto dealer’s row. In 1914 the 31-year-old financier Howard W. Fenker went to work for the White Motorcar Continue Reading