{"id":298,"date":"2014-01-16T22:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-03-04T03:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T03:35:39","slug":"the-kaiser-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/01\/16\/the-kaiser-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaiser Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-298 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/01\/16\/the-kaiser-building\/kaiser-hall-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/914\/2014\/01\/Kaiser-Hall-2.jpg?w=150&amp;h=150&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-302\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-302'>\n\t\t\t\tKaiser Hall, 2013\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/01\/16\/the-kaiser-building\/kaiser-building-1871\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/914\/2014\/01\/Kaiser-Building-1871.jpg?w=150&amp;h=150&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-306\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-306'>\n\t\t\t\tKaiser Hall, 1870s\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>By James Caprio<\/p>\n<p>The Kaiser Building (or Kaiser Hall) was built in 1871, just six years after the end of the Civil War.\u00a0Built by successful Akron businessman Joseph Kaiser, the building\u2019s design\u00a0was modeled after the High Victorian Gothic style popular in Europe in the middle 1800s.\u00a0The features of this style are the running bond red pressed brick, high arching windows with contrasting limestone trim, and gabled roofs (which have since been removed from the building).\u00a0After the building was completed in 1877, Kaiser Hall and its adjacent buiildings became known as Kaiser\u2019s Block. Joseph Kaiser operated a hardware store on the street level, selling tools, stoves, and copper and sheet iron products.\u00a0Kaiser lived in the luxury loft above his store.\u00a0The third level of the building was used as a grand ballroom.\u00a0Kaiser leased out one half of the building to Charles Myers, who ran the company Holloway and Myers.\u00a0Holloway and Myers sold hats, boots, and shoes.\u00a0Myers also resided in the building on the upper level. In 1891, Kaiser\u2019s hardware store was taken over by John Gross, who continued the hardware store at the site until the 1940s.\u00a0Since then, the building has seen its share of various businesses come and go.\u00a0In recent history, the building was purchased by JJC Investors in 2005, however they were unable to renovate or sell the building.\u00a0They even tried to sell the building on E-Bay, yet were unsuccessful. The building was then bought by Tony Troppe and the Kaiser Hall Revival Group and has since been renovated and re-opened as a site for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James Caprio The Kaiser Building (or Kaiser Hall) was built in 1871, just six years after the end of the Civil War.\u00a0Built by successful Akron businessman Joseph Kaiser, the building\u2019s design\u00a0was modeled after the High Victorian Gothic style popular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/2014\/01\/16\/the-kaiser-building\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36282],"tags":[7160,36294,36338,36302],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-downtown","tag-akron","tag-downtown-2","tag-kaiser-building","tag-walking-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/rubbercityrevisited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}