Isaac M. Wise Temple
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| Plum Street Temple | |
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| Location: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Built/Founded: | 1865 |
| Architect: | James Keys Wilson |
| Architectural style(s): | Exotic Revival, Other |
| Added to NRHP: | December 27, 1972 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 72001021 [1] |
| Governing body: | Private |
The Isaac M. Wise Temple (formerly the Plum Street Temple) is the historic temple erected for Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise. Rabbi Wise was the founder of American Reform Judaism. The Temple is located at 720 Plum Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. The members of the Lodge Street Synagogue built this Temple and it was dedicated on Friday, August 24, 1866. As a daily paper writes at the time, "Cincinnati never before had seen so much grandeur pressed into so small a space."[citation needed] Although originally budgeted at a cost of $35,000 for the land, and $55,000 for the building, the total cost of the enterprise exceeded $300,000, largely due to post Civil War inflation.[citation needed]
The temple is across Plum Street from the historic Saint Peter In Chains Cathedral and next to site of the former St. Paul Episcopal Cathedral, which was torn down in 1937.
In 1972, the Plum Street Temple was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
[edit] Architecture
This building was constructed by James Keyes Wilson with a 19th century Germanic architectural style thet blended the Neo-Byzantine architecture and Moorish Revival style derived from the architecture of Moorish Spain. It has a tripartite facade, rose window and a basilica style arch, similar to a Gothic Cathedral, but its Islamic influences are visible in its minarets and other details.[2]
Plum Street is notable for having been the first of many American Moorish Revival synagogues. [3] All examples of similar architecture in Germany were destroyed by Hitler.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
- ^ Painter, Sue Anne. Architecture in Cincinnati.
- ^ Moorish Influence At Home in the City, by FRANCIS MORRONE, New York Sun, December 15, 2006, http://www2.nysun.com/arts/moorish-influence-at-home-in-the-city/
- ^ Stephens, Sarah. "Citybeat", Cincitecture, July 18-24, 2007, p. 47.
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