{"id":13899,"date":"2013-08-30T02:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2013-08-30T02:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:10:22","slug":"george-hummel-the-ridgewood-furniture-carpet-house-bushwick-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2013\/08\/30\/george-hummel-the-ridgewood-furniture-carpet-house-bushwick-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"George Hummel &#8211; The Ridgewood Furniture &#038; Carpet House &#8211; Bushwick, Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/aiosa-bushwick-hummel.jpg?resize=580%2C776\" width=\"580\" height=\"776\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1497-1603 &#8211; 1900&#8217;s telephone numbers \u00a9 Vincenzo Aiosa<\/p><\/div>\n<p>George Hummel, Sr. \u00a0(1851-1911)\u00a0an acclaimed furniture &amp; cabinet maker, was the son of stone mason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggingcincinnati.com\/2012\/09\/1910-freeman-avenue.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Hummel<\/a>, a German immigrant who settled in Cincinnati, OH\u00a0in 1841 according to Constance Lee Menefee, &#8220;<em>with optimism\u00a0and a trade<\/em>.&#8221; There he started the Hummel Building Company.\u00a0Menefee further states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>At that time Cincinnati was on the crest of a building and expansion boom&#8230;.David Hummel died in 1894, leaving the business in the capable hands of his three sons: George, \u00a0Frank and William. Each had been trained as an apprentice to a stone mason, blacksmith or carpenter and\u00a0each worked at the stone yard and had supervised construction.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.selfcraft.net\/hannaford\/chbook\/ch_ch18-23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u00b9<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Digging Cincinnati:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In 1893, George Hummel, Sr. was the first to build his home at 3423 Whitfield Avenue. This home remained in his family until his wife, Ella, passed away in 1947. This home, designed by Samuel Hannaford &amp; Sons, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diggingcincinnati.com\/2012\/09\/the-hummel-houses-of-whitfield-avenue.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00b2<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Hummel_House\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/GeorgeHummelHouse.jpg?resize=580%2C638\" width=\"580\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Hummel House &#8211; Cincinnati, OH &#8211; Courtesy of Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Hummel, Sr. \u00a0(1851-1911)\u00a0an acclaimed furniture &amp; cabinet maker, was the son of stone mason David Hummel, a German immigrant who settled in Cincinnati, OH\u00a0in 1841 according to Constance Lee Menefee, &#8220;with optimism\u00a0and a trade.&#8221; There he started the Hummel Building Company.\u00a0Menefee further states: At that time Cincinnati was on the crest of a building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[257,330,643],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bushwick","category-cincinnati-oh","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-3Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13901,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions\/13901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}