Elmwood Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Elmwood Hall is a historic residence in Ludlow, located in the Kentucky portions of the Cincinnati metropolitan area in the United States. Located atop a prominent Ohio River vantage point, it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Elmwood Hall (Ludlow, Kentucky), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 76 National Register listings published here for Kenton County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 244-246 Forrest Ave., Ludlow, 41016
When was it listed? August 1972
Category. building
Census division. Covington
Architect. Benjamin Henry Latrobe
National Register reference number. 72000541 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Elmwood Hall: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
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 1997

Regional 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.

Every storm recorded in Kenton County

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 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Ludlow Theater, The	under 500 feet	2013
Central Ludlow Historic District	0.2 miles	1984
Magnus Metal Company Building	0.3 miles	2023
Maxwell House	0.4 miles	1984
Eleventh District School	0.8 miles	1983
House at 855-857 Oak Street	0.8 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000541 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.