Mitchell and Rammelsberg Furniture Company's retail ware-rooms are situated at Nos. 107, 109, 111, and 113   West Fourth Street, and have a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 150 feet.  The building is, including the basement, 7 stories in height.

The wholesale ware-rooms and manufactories are situated on Second Street, on both sides of John Street.  The manufactories are in all probability, the largest engaged in the manufacture of furniture in the world.  The working area of floors amounts to 242,450 square feet.  There are, altogether, 80 wood working machines, propelled by steam.  The number of hands employed is 750.  The lumber yards cover about two acres.  The business was established in the year 1836, and grew from a very small beginning to its present mammoth proportions.  Perhaps there is no other establish in Cincinnati that grew in proportion as fast as the city itself.  The retail salesrooms are well worth visiting.  The traveler will probably not see in any city in Europe or America such a rare collection of fine articles in the furniture line as may be seen on the second floor of the establishment on Fourth Street.

The firm import costly works of art, which are distributed through their rooms.  They manufacture furniture for the million from the commonest table and chair to the finest suites for parlor, drawing-room, library, bedroom, or dining-room that can be furnished.

Robert Mitchell, President; A. H. Mitchell, Secretary and Treasurer.

Excerpt from:  1875 Kenny's Illustrated Cincinnati

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