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
Category: Housing
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
Black Homeowners and their Mortgages in the 1920s through the 1950s
Black home buyers struggled against two great restrictions in the 1910s through the 1950s. The first was an increasingly hostile attitude in white neighborhoods toward Continue Reading
Washington Terrace
Model Home by Schmidlapp Jacob Schmidlapp talked some of his friends into joining him in financing a half-million-dollar joint stock company called the Cincinnati Model Continue Reading
Gary Dangel
Gary has been an active neighbor in Walnut Hills since the late 1970’s. He has worked on community gardens, including the school garden across from Continue Reading
Low Cost Housing History – Washington Terrace Community
The Washington Terrace Apartment Complex built by Jacob Schmidlapp’s Model Homes Company west of Gilbert and south of Blair was built on vacant land that Continue Reading