It was designed by the Cincinnati architectural firm of Elzner & Anderson in the Tudor Revival style and built in 1921 for the Procter and Collier advertising agency.

The Beau Brummell Company, named for the 19th century dandy known for his elegant clothing, was founded by Harry and Edward Weisbaum and Sam A. Brower in 1923.

“We don’t usually give up on an operation,” Daniel Manella, Vice President of New York-based Rapid-American Corp. told the Cincinnati Post in 1982.

“Especially an old, established company, but it got to a point where it made very poor business sense to continue.”[2] Union Institute & University[2] acquired the structure in 1989 and restored the historic building.

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