Dedication Booklet for the North Avondale Synagogue Albert & Sadye Harris Memorial Sanctuary

December 10 1989

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whether it was going to be a good location, and that he was nearly always correct.

In 1929 Al Harris bought land and built a building with eighteen apartments and four stores on the Northwest corner of Burnet and Rockdale Avenues in Avondale, and later that year developed the Northeast and Southeast corner. He built the Waldorf with eighty nine apartments on Reading Road in 1935 with brother Sam Harris; several homes and apartments in Chalfonte and on Barry Lane in Avondale; developed a corner of Paddock and California Avenues and at Reading and Dale Roads in Bond Hill; and other buildings in Price Hill, Covington, Kentucky and other locations. He built and operated a number of movie theaters: The Roselawn Theater, the Vogue in Hartwell, the Ritz on Woodbury, and several others.

Later Mr. Harris branched out into the hotel business, some owned by himself and others with partners. There was the Kemper Lane Hotel in Walnut Hills with ninety apartments and eleven stores; the Metropole and Broadway (now the Lyle) hotels in downtown Cincinnati; the knickerbocker and Times Square hotels in New York City; the De Soto in St. Louis; the Broad Lincoln in Columbus and the Sovereign Hotel in Miami Beach.

During Al’s busy business life, he generously put his building experience and untold hours of his time into projects for the Jewish community.

In 1954 he and his brother built a Talmud Torah on Summit Road in Roselawn, currently the site of the