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One of 76 National Register listings published here for Kenton County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Ludlow Theater, The
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 322-326 Elm St., Ludlow, 41016
- When was it listed? March 2013
- Category. building
- Census division. Covington
- Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
- National Register reference number. 13000111 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ludlow Theater, The: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avril Co/ Cincinnati, Ohio | Tin, Lead, Antimony | Unknown | ||
| Constance Yard | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cargill Salt Terminal | Salt | Past Producer | ||
| Cincinnati Salt Service | Salt | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ludlow, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludlow | $5,000 | Trees were knocked down across the northern part of the county. |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludlow | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludlow | $3,000 | Multiple healthy trees were downed. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludlow | $3,000 | A few trees were downed. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludlow | $1,000 | A large tree was knocked down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ludlow | $1,000 | A tree limb was down on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| August 2025 | Flood | Ludlow | - | High water was reported on a couple of streets near the Ohio River. |
| May 2022 | Flood | Ludlow | - | High water was reported along West 4th Street. |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Elmwood Hall | under 500 feet | 1972 |
 | Central Ludlow Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1984 |
| Magnus Metal Company Building | 0.4 miles | 2023 | |
 | Maxwell House | 0.4 miles | 1984 |
 | House at 855-857 Oak Street | 0.8 miles | 1984 |
 | Ludlow Lagoon Clubhouse | 0.8 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 13000111 in Record Group 79. |
| Kenton County | All 76 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.