The Cincinnati Bell Company opened its building at Seventh and Elm streets in 1931.

With a push of a button heavy steel doors will lock and metal covers will spring up over the windows on the lower floors.

Representations of rotary telephones are carved into the limestone frieze on the building's facade.

[3] Continuing the communication motif, still other reliefs depict a runner, telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and nautical flag signals.

This article about a property in Hamilton County, Ohio on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.