Gwynne Building

Gwynne Building
Sixth and Main Downtown Cincinnati.
July 9th 2010

The Gwynne building Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio 6th and main.

History In the early 1900s, on the northeast corner of Main and sixth Streets in Cincinnati, Ohio, the growing Procter & Gamble Company operated in a building owned by real estate broker Major David Gwynne. In 1913, The Gwynne Building was developed on the site, under the direction of Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, Gwynne's granddaughter and wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Alice's cousin, Ernest Flagg, designed the building. Flagg, a successful New York architect, was considered one of the most innovative practioners of the classical revival Beaux-Arts style reflected in the Gwynne Building's details.

The Gwynne Building was completed in 1914 and Alice dedicated it to her father, prominent Cincinnati lawyer and Judge, Abraham Gwynne. Procter & Gamble leased the building and eventually purchased it in 1935. The building served as Procter & Gamble's corporate headquarters until 1956.

The Gwynne Building is one of 15 registered historic buildings in Hamilton County, Ohio, listed in the U.S. Department of Interior's National Historic Register on August 3, 1979.
Documented cases of three people that lost their lives there:

1. Old caretaker / maintence man in the early 1900’s went down into the basement to change out a fuse. He thought that he turned off all the power but as he began to grab hold of the fuse to remove it, he was fused to the electrical panel and passed away from his injuries.
2. A women lost her life in front of the building.
3. A homeless man was found dead in the basement area, died from natural causes.

Claims of activity:
Mist like figures walking down the hallway. Shadow figures, sounds of people running. Women’s voice was heard on the fourth and ninth floor. Images of a person in the penthouse area.

Many strange things did happen. On the ninth floor, I heard a disembodied women’s voice laughing. Fourth floor direct responses to our questions with a K2 meter, even though I do not put much stock into K2 meters due to radio waves and natural energy fluxuations that they can pick up, but these responses where on que. We also captured a couple EVP’s that truly seemed interesting

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