Title	Plum Street Temple
Creator	Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Subject	Cincinnati (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc Synagogues--Ohio--Cincinnati Wilson, James Keys, 1828-1894 Wise, Isaac Mayer, 1819-1900
Time Period	1930s 1940s
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	Plum Street Temple, now called the Isaac M. Wise temple, is located at 720 Plum Street at the corner of Eighth Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. Designed by architect James Keys Wilson, the first president of the Cincinnati Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, it is one of only two American temples built in the Byzantine-Moorish (or Byzantine-Saracenic) style, a Germanic style that combined Neo-Byzantine with Moorish Revival. The facade was copied from the Leopoldstadter Tempel in Vienna, Austria.. The building, completed in 1866, is one of the oldest synagogues still standing in the United States and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Date of Original	ca. 1935-1943
Collection	Ohio Guide Photographs
Source	State Archives Series 1039 AV
Submitting Institution	Ohio History Connection
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
File Name	SA1039AV_B02F12_012_1.tif
Image Height	6240
Image Width	5084
File Size	95196756 Bytes
Display File Type	image/jp2
Format	picture
Date created	2009-08-10
Date modified	2018-02-16

Plum Street Temple

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