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1873 and remodeled in 1917, meets Criterion A and is significant in the area of community development as an example of a 19*-century It has been evaluated in the context of the development of the Hyde Park neighborhood (c. 1850- 1920), which took place in the larger context of the suburbanization of Cincinnati (c. 1830 to 1920). The renovation and stylistic updating of the Weston House in the 1910s was carried out adding new features consonant with the old. The Weston House's period of significance begins in 1873, the estimated date of its construction, and ends c.
1920, as the era of the great hilltop estates came to an end The Weston House is one of the few surviving examples of the stone mansions built by wealthy Cincinnatians in the eastern suburbs during the second half of the 19* century, as business owners, industrialists, professionals and civic leaders made their homes in new hilltop communities, linked to the central city by newly built rail and car lines. As one of the few extant primarily in the 20" century, the Weston House is a rare surviving resource in the neighborhood: a link with its suburban past. It represents Hyde Park's transition from an isolated community to an urban neighborhood following its annexation by Cincinnati, linking the two eras in the neighborhood's history. While several other former estate residences survive in the represent the community's development in the same way.
The Weston House is a highly significant example of a typical adaptive reuse of a large single- which carefully blends the sensibilities of two dissimilar eras; and its high degree of preservation. The house's integrity was been preserved by two specific conditions, uncommon in urban neighborhoods: a long tenure by one owner (the Weston family), and consistently high property values, which justified maintaining the original configuration of the apartments rather than subdividing them into smaller spaces. (8-86) suburban estate mansion converted to a fashionable apartment building in the early 2o"h century.
estate residences of Hyde Park, and one of the oldest surviving buildings in a neighborhood built family residence.It is distinguished by its high artistic values;its unique architectural character, neighborhood, they appear to have been maintained as single-family dwellings and do not with great care and sensitivity, preserving much of its original architectural character while Section 8 Page NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio The house appears to have been built as the suburban residence of John Henry Weston, a was built, its environs were part of an isolated suburban community largely comprised of expansive estates of families like the Westons.
During the early 20" century Hyde Park was annexed by Cincinnati and developed as a middle- and upper-class residential neighborhood After the deaths of Weston and his wife, Mary, their children Harry and Maggie inherited the HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT Alleghenies, was founded in 1788. Prior to 1870, it was primarily a "walking city," much of its growth confined to a terrace surrounded on the west, north and east by steep hills that proved a generally thin clay, limited their usefulness for agriculture. During the 1800s, buyers and real estate speculators began to purchase land atop the hills. Here they established "farms," rural residences and summer homes, or held land as an investment. rapidly increasing in value....
[T]his hilltop land...offered splendid opportunities for Cincinnati's the social and intellectual and financial elite of what was indeed the Queen City of the West" (Henry Shapiro and Zane Miller, Clifton: Neighborhood and Community in an Urban Setting. A Brief History [Cincinnati, Ohio: The Laboratory in American Civilization, 1976], pp. 3, 7) Among the communities that drew wealthy residents was the village of Clifton; one of the city's oldest suburbs, it was located on a verdant hill three miles northeast of downtown. (Since (8-86) residences and converted the homestead to an apartment building, named the Weston Flats. The barrier to expansion. The inaccessibility of the hilltops and the poor quality of their soil, the Queen City of the West for the pre-eminent position it once enjoyed among cities west of the building was passed down through the family until 1955.
Suburbanization in Cincinnati, c. 1830-1920. The Ohio River city of Cincinnati, nicknamed newly rich to build summer homes in the country, villas on estates appropriate to their status as house and the surrounding acreage. They divided the land into building lots for single-family prosperous Cincinnati business owner known as the"lightning rod man."At the time the house "Cincinnati's elite was moving out into the country, and hilltop land all over the county was In the 1830s and1840s a number of wealthy Cincinnatians established rural estates atop the hills. Clifton is perhaps the best-documented of Cincinnati's hilltop communities, a wealth of Section 8 Page 2 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio information exists about its history, much of which is also applicable to similar neighborhoods.) "So soon as Americans discovered the romantic possibilities of landscape and scenic views, and so soon as the residents of Cincinnati amassed enough wealth to send an elite to the hilltops Over the next half-century Clifton's development followed a pattern repeated by other hilltop communities, including East Walnut Hills and Hyde Park.
The grand country estates developed in the mid-40s remained, but in among them were constructed newer homes in different styles, their floor plan and their details, their location and their landscaped grounds designed to meet the needs of a suburban rather than a rural population. The houses themselves, like their owners, were of the city but not in it, yet it was with ultimate reference to the city that the new Clifton of the second half The new suburban dwellers, like John Henry Weston, tended to be prosperous business owners or professionals. As suited their station in life, their homes tended to be larger and more opulent Buildings of this period, which ranges from the later 1850's to the 1880's, were usually designed by architects and are interpretations of popular architectural styles of the period.
During this time, European styles from various times were incorporated into designs for a modern way of life. This was the heyday of Clifton when wealthy industrialists, lawyers and merchants built mansions for themselves and displayed their wealth. (Cincinnati City Planning Department, Historic Conservation Office, "Clifton Historic District Designation Report" [1991], p. 8) Some of Cincinnati's finest suburban estates of the period were described by author Sidney D. Maxwell in his 1870 work, The Suburbs of Cincinnati. Built for the most part of enduring stone or brick, they featured verandas, bay windows and "observatories" (belvederes) offering choice views of hill, valley and river. The East Walnut Hills estate of J.L. Stettinius was (8-86) surrounding the city, Clifton came into its own" (Shapiro and Miller, p. 3). of the century emerged. (Shapiro and Miller, p.
9) than the more modest residences of their predecessors. Section & Page 3 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio a stately residence...of blue limestone...with window caps and other external ornaments of the same material....The color imparts toit an airof sobriety and quiet comfort well comporting with the enduring nature of the materials, upon which the tooth of time may, for generations, gnaw in vain.... The land rises from the road, and the house commands a delightful view of hill and dale, woodland and gentle slope. (Sidney D. Maxwell, The Suburbs of Cincinnati [G.E. Stevens, 1870], pp.
68, 69) The Edward Sargent house was a brick edifice trimmed with brown stone, with Mansard roof and observatory; and veranda There is neither mountain nor river, but the eye wanders over farm, grove, and hillside, the horizon from fifteen to twenty miles away. (Ibid., p. 68) One of the most famous suburban mansions of the post-bellum era was "Elmhurst," the palatial Hyde Park residence of Judge William Slocum Groesbeck, eminent jurist and statesman. In the late 1860s Groesbeck bought 25 wooded acres on Grandin Road, in what is now Hyde Park. Here important Cincinnati-born architect during the second half of the nineteenth century" (Walter E. Langsam, "A Biographical Dictionary of Architects Who Worked in the Greater Cincinnati Area chandeliers (Iphigene Bettman, "Elmhurst," Cincinnati Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 18 No. 3 bridge" was built across a ravine.
Groesbeck and his wife, the former Elizabeth Burnet, entertained many distinguished guests at their home, including President and Mrs. Rutherford B. communities attracted large numbers of new residents, wealthy urban dwellers began to depart for new suburbs. The history of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, a proud residential street hailed as (8-86) The suburban era comes to an end. As cities grew in population, and formerly exclusive which follow each other in rapid succession, until vision is arrested by the woods skirting Before World War II"[1996],p.100). This"elegant residence of blue limestone"contained 38 he commissioned a grand mansion designed by James W. McLaughlin,"probably the most Hayes. rooms and was filled with exquisite furnishings, such as gilt mirrors and Waterford crystal upon the south and west... A splendid landscape is to be seen from his observatory.
Section 8 Page_4 [July1960],p.203-204).To connect Elmhurst with a nearby thoroughfare,an iron"carriage OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio the "showplace of America" during its heyday in the late 19"h century, graphically illustrates the outmigration of the rich, and the conversion or demolition of the homes they left behind. "By the mid-1920s, a number of the magnificent houses on the Avenue had been sold and subdivided. Those residents of long standing who remained disliked the downgraded property as much as on the street's commercial potential, also helped to drive residents from the avenue.
"...[O]nce the Avenue's commercial function had become well established, real estate taxes uniformly skyrocketed 200 percent between 1900 and 1910, and another 300 to 500 percent over the next institutions" (ibid., p. 324). This "transition from city to suburb" was facilitated by the automobile. While visitors to the city might have been disappointed by finding the splendid residences inner-city apartments, and recreational enterprise for the masses, the Avenue's patrons had already looked well beyond the Avenue to find homes for themselves outside the downtown area.
They shared such mobile tendencies with their American peers, who 1800s, some of the estates of Clifton, and similar communities, began to be subdivided into to an influx of new residents who may have appreciated the atmosphere of Clifton but could not By the late 19th century the hilltop communities were becoming more populous. Population growth led to annexation by Cincinnati, which accelerated the pace of urbanization. Most of the remaining estates were broken up and subdivided for building lots, where middle- and upper- (8-86) The same transition took place in Cincinnati, beginning in the mid-19th century. During the mid- middle-class owners built homes. Business districts, which included multi-family dwellings, afford to build palatial homes" ("Clifton Historic District," p. 6).
that had been Cleveland's pride gradually displaced by aggressive trade, transit lines, were moving off the nation's grand avenues in large numbers after 1910.... (ibid., p. 326) their new neighbors"(Jan Cigliano, Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue,1850- decade"(ibid.,p.323).Residents responded by"moving off the Avenue,razing their residences, and selling the land...Other residents donated or sold their homes to tax-exempt, philanthropic NPS Form 10-900-a smaller parcels. "By the mid-1850s some large estates...were already being subdivided to adjust 1910 [Kent State University Press, 1991], p. 322). High property tax assessments, based in part NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Public transportation increased accessibility and carried residents to jobs in the urban core. For the hilltop neighborhoods, the suburban era was at an end. suburbs. The city and surrounding communities expanded outward, resulting in an increasingly decentralized metropolis linked by a series of new roads, parkways and viaducts. In Hyde Park, the influence of the automobile is apparent in the many single-family residences the city's wealthy residents built new, sprawling estates in outlying areas accessible only by auto. These included the Grandin Road area of Hyde Park, located on a ridge overlooking the Ohio community known as Camargo.
(See Cincinnati neighborhood map.) lacking a viable use, were demolished and their grounds platted for building lots. "Although many large estates were maintained by wealthy families, others were converted to other uses or stately residences was built on lots carved from its acreage. By the 1940s, the mansion, now 19th century. These included the Clifton home of political "boss" George B. Cox (NR, 1973), which was converted to a women's dormitory in 1939 and later became a fraternity house. Still others were replaced by new apartment buildings, or were torn down for institutional expansion: (8-86) Over the next several decades, the growing popularity and accessibility of automobiles reshaped bereft and empty, was demolished, and a group of smaller houses was built on its site. In the built in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, usually with small garages at the side or rear.
In the 1920s the city once again. No longer dependent on transit lines for the journey to work, middle-class River, and the secluded village of Indian Hill in northeast Hamilton County, formerly a farming New uses for old mansions. As the rich moved away, their former estates, costly to maintain and demolished as the property was subdivided..In some cases, the estate house was maintained, in developed along main streets; in some cases older residences were converted to business use. others, it was not"("Clifton Historic District,""p. 7). The Groesbeck estate exemplifies this trend.
residents could now live where they pleased, in outlying neighborhoods and even far-flung Its acreage began to be subdivided in the early 1900s, and over the next two decades a series of words of Iphigene Bettman, "The stately homes of Elmhurst, how beautiful they stood, before Some mansions were spared by conversion to institutional use: a process that began in the late their recent owners relinquished them for good!" (Bettman, p. 201) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Many large 19"-century residences, like the Weston House, were saved by conversion to multi- family use.
These conversions were most common in areas with multi-family zoning and high housing demand, such as Clifton (which includes the University of Cincinnati), Avondale, Mount Auburn and Walnut Hills. Walnut Hills, an economically and racially diverse community on the east side of the city that developed primarily in the second half of the 19th century, provides a good case study for this type of reuse. (See neighborhood map.) Its housing stock, built for the most part in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s, included grand residences on large lots, spacious century: an era that also saw the construction of several large apartment blocks in the neighborhood, as well as small bungalows on scattered parcels.
The WPA guide to Cincinnati may have been referring to these converted mansions when it stated, "Near by are stolid rooming houses that once were elegant homes" (The WPA Guide to Cincinnati [Cincinnati: The family, office or institutional use still stand. One of the finest is 2333 Kemper Lane, a industrialist Frederick Lunkenheimer (NR, 1985), has been converted to offices. The Pogue House on Fulton Street, a Queen Anne/Romanesque Revival edifice built for a department store magnate, now houses a social service agency. Recently renovated after years of dilapidation, in 2000 it received a preservation award from the Cincinnati Preservation Association. These imposing residences, while diverse in architectural expression, are comparable in scale and character to the Weston House.
The neighborhood also includes many well-preserved multi-family residences that lack considerable individual distinction but contribute to the ambience of the street. Many can be found along Park Avenue and Kemper Lane south of East McMillan Street. They include 2309- 11 Kemper Lane, a frame Italianate house with Neoclassical Revival portico; 2227-29 Kemper (NR, 1973). Several well-preserved and architecturally distinguished large residences converted to multi- (8-86) Cincinnati Historical Society, 1987], p. 283). duplexes resembling single-family dwellings, and blocks of well-detailed rowhouses. Many of the great houses of the late Victorian era began to be subdivided into apartments in the early 20th a fate shared by several residences along Auburn Avenue in the Mount Auburn Historic District Romanesque Revival sandstone residence.
"The Ingleheim," the Luray Avenue villa of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Lane, a Queen Anne/Eastlake brick residence; and 2238 Kemper Lane, a Queen Anne frame and brick dwelling.
Still other converted residences have suffered from insensitive remodeling or lack include 2338 Kemper Lane, a brick Italianate house; 2245 Park Avenue, a stone Romanesque Revival dwelling with obtrusive modern addition; and 2327 Park Avenue, a house of unknown In sum, Walnut Hills' multi-family residences include several landmark buildings, numerous other city neighborhoods with comparable housing stock, topography and socioeconomic an Italianate villa in Clifton, and 2312 Park Avenue, a Walnut Hills Shingle Style residence with accompanying gazebo and greenhouse. Development of Hyde Park. The development of Hyde Park was in many ways typical of the pattern of suburbanization and annexation that characterized Cincinnati's 19"-century development.
Prior to its annexation by Cincinnati, it was part of Columbia (later Spencer) Township: one of several Hamilton County townships that would largely be absorbed by urban growth. The first Euro-American settlers ventured into the eastern part of the township by the early 1800s, seeking out choice sites near the Little Miami River. Among them was Joseph land from proprietor John Cleves Symmes, who controlled a million acres of land between the Little and Great Miami rivers. A small part of Ferris' vast acreage lay in what would become eastern Hyde Park. Here he raised corn and hogs, and founded a tannery and a distillery. (See as U.S. Architectural Example," Cincinnati Post, July 16, 1934, p. 9.) By the early 19t century, several roads or turnpikes had been built through the township. One of (8-86) "background" houses, and a few noncontributing structures.
Similar conditions can be found in proudly amid their diminished, yet ample acreage. These include the Rawson House (NR, 1973), vintage that has been altered beyond recognition. "Cincinnati Landmark: Wealth of History in Background of 126-Year-Old House. House Cited As the 2o"h century waned, a few hilltop mansions remained as single-family residences, standing of maintenance:problems exacerbated by neighborhood decline.Extensively altered buildings Ferris, a Connecticut Yankee who migrated to Cincinnati in1799.He purchased 700 acres of the first was Observatory Avenue, a section road variously known as the City Road, County Road NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page_ 9 Neston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio or Linwood Pike.
"Observatory Road, then called the City Road, was an old plank-and-gravel way that had been laid down in 1792 and extended from... Walnut Hills to Chillicothe, Ohio" (The WPA Guide to Cincinnati [Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Historical Society, 1987], p. 306). Edwards Road, formerly known as the Plank Road, was a section road built about 1830; it extended northeast from the Ohio River toward the village of Sharpsburg (now the present-day city of Norwood) (ibid.). Linwood Avenue, formerly known as the Linwood Turnpike or longer extant) was located at the southwest corner of Linwood and Observatory, with a grocery and post office nearby ( ibid.). (See Titus' Atlas of Hamilton County, Ohio [C.O. Titus, 1869]; also topographic map.) By the 1830s, isolated rural settlements, which would eventually become part of Cincinnati, began to develop along these roads.
Columbia, the second-oldest settlement in the Northwest Territory, was founded at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Miami rivers in 1788. At the three-point intersection of Madison Road, Grandin Road and Torrence Parkway developed the village of O'Bryonville, which was platted in the 1830s. Farther east was Madisonville, located along the road of the same name, also laid out in the 1830s. Madisonville later benefitted from the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, the first rail line to be built through eastern Hamilton train carried commuters to Cincinnati. (See Titus' Atlas of Hamilton County, Ohio; Cincinnati For most of the 19th century, much of what is now Hyde Park was considered to be part of East Walnut Hills, itself an unincorporated suburban community. In 1870 Sidney D.
Maxwell described East Walnut Hills as a place of "beautiful homes, broad fields, splendid groves of Cincinnatians built splendid residences in a variety of architectural styles, some of which were (8-86) neighborhood map.) Observatory Avenue were occupied by rambling country estates surrounded by forest. (See forest trees," conveying the "full enjoyment of rural simplicity" (Maxwell, p. 66). Linwood Road, was a toll road that ran north from the village of the same name. A tollhouse (no W.D.Emerson, Map of Hamilton County, Ohio[C.S. Williams,1847].) Here well-to-do County. The hilly community of Mount Lookout grew up along the Linwood Turnpike, Observatory Road and Paxton Avenue in the mid-19th century.A steam-powered"dummy" An 1847 Hamilton County atlas indicates that during the mid-1800s Edwards Road and NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Titus' 1869 county atlas indicates that Section 26 of Columbia Township was occupied for the most part by ample tracts of land. By 1883 it included a mixture of full-time residences and other dwellings that may have been summer homes or investment properties, on tracts ranging from Cincinnati [E. Robinson, 1883-1884].) Several of the owners who could be identified by the 1883 city directory, including Arnold Kattenhorn, owned businesses in downtown Cincinnati and resided elsewhere in the city, either in the downtown area or in another suburb. Others, like the Westons and the Cryers, made their homes there.
The Cryer family, relatives of the Mortens, resided in a family compound at Observatory and Paxton that included two houses, one much larger than the other. Intermingled among the estates were modest parcels. Samuel Leeds, a contractor, lived on a small lot at Linwood and Observatory. Farther east, along Paxton, lay a block of diminutive residences on narrow lots. Morten Street, located one block east of present- day Michigan Avenue, was dotted with houses by 1883; it was a one-block subdivision carved from the Morten estate. (See Weston history for more information.) It is interesting to note that the map shows the land overlaid with a dashed grid of "paper" streets, some of which apparently were built and some that were not. (See 1869, 1883 atlases.) By the late 1800s, Hyde Park began to develop an identity separate from East Walnut Hills.
In 1872 the Norfolk and Western Railroad built a rail line through the area, crossing Madison Road parcel bounded by Madison Road, Observatory Avenue and Edwards Road, which would Hyde Park was incorporated in 1896. A promotional brochure produced in the 1890s (exact date (8-86) eventually be expanded to the east and the south. Originally called Mornington, it was renamed fashion so that the trees across the valleys might be seen.." (Shapiro and Miller, p. 3). The unknown) described the site as "a beautiful rolling plateau..far above the smoke and soot of the owners improved their estates with winding drives, flower gardens, shrubberies and evergreens. designed by local architects. Some were sited to take advantage of sweeping river views."And city."It went on to say,"The view is grand.
One may see for miles a charming succession of the views must have been magnificent.The native trees were cut over in good 19"h century for the Hudson River village as a mark of status. small parcels to 50-acre holdings. (See E. Robinson and R.H. Pidgeon, Atlas of the City of NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio broad avenues, expensive residences, regulated commercial districts and no industry. Residents could commute to Cincinnati by the new rail line or by a street railway at the foot of the Torrence The stalwart could ride the cable line to Walnut Hills, then continue on foot along the Hyde Park was annexed to Cincinnati in 1903.
Roads were improved, streetcar lines extended and utilities upgraded, and the new neighborhood's population grew. Hamilton County maps from 1913 and 1914 depict clusters of development along primary thoroughfares such as Madison Road and Observatory Avenue, interspersed by open land. As Hyde Park developed a somewhat denser, more urban character, it lost some of the exclusive Apartments were added to Hyde Park's residential mix in the 1890s with the construction of multi-story buildings around the newly developed Hyde Park Square. The oldest buildings, built on main avenues close to transit lines, often had ground-floor storefronts, and some built in commercial districts had common walls. 1904 Cincinnati Sanborn map depicts the area south of Observatory and east of Edwards, with Morten Street, carved from the Morten estate, which was dotted with houses by 1883.
Another still undeveloped, was not included in the map. By 1917 Michigan Avenue and neighboring streets were solidly lined with houses. The Weston House is clearly indicated on the map. It is noted as an apartment building of brick and stone construction, with front and rear porches and a (8-86) ambience of its early development. In a pattern typical of Cincinnati in the first two decades of Madisonville Turnpike. cluster of houses stood at the intersection of Linwood and Observatory. The Weston property, Hyde Park was conceived as a"place of homes"(ibid.): an exclusive residential suburb with Road (now Torrence Parkway), a macadamized thoroughfare; they could also travel by way of The Weston House's neighborhood developed for the most part in the 1900s and 1910s.The the new Columbia Road (since rebuilt as Columbia Parkway), a paved avenue along the river.
the 2o" century, a growing population meant increased demand for multi-family living units. the exception of the previously noted Morten Street, as largely open land.An exception was detached garage. (See map copy.) NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Few of Hyde Park's 19th-century estate residences have survived the relentless march of urban development. One of the few that has been identified is the Stuart B. Sutphin House at 2180 Grandin Road, built in 1865. The Sutphin House is a frame Second Empire dwelling in a George N. Stone House at 3025 Observatory Avenue (HAM-2141-10), built c. 1880, is a High Victorian frame dwelling with intricate wall treatments and a tall tower with steep cap.
It is surrounded by large period revival residences of the 1920s. The Sutphin and Stone residences were identified as potentially eligible for National Register listing during survey. At 3264 extensive alterations. On nearby Elmhurst Place stands the former stable of the Groesbeck estate, since enlarged and adapted as a residence (HAM-1301-10, c. 1874). Apartment house development in Hyde Park. No formal study of apartment buildings in the city of Cincinnati in general, or in Hyde Park in particular, has been conducted to date. Original research by historians, however, has delineated some basic patterns of development. A citywide survey conducted in 1978 provided general information about apartment house styles, and OHI The development of apartment houses in Cincinnati can best be understood in the context of the process of suburbanization in the late 19th and early 20" centuries.
Beginning in the 1870s transportation system improvements, including inclined planes, commuter railroads and electric streetcar lines, made it easier for citizens, including middle- and working-class residents, to move The first series of annexations took place in the mid-19th century, during which several and 1910s many more communities farther from the center-including Hyde Park, where the Weston House is located-were enveloped by the city (see WPA Guide to Cincinnati). Partly as a (8-86) rubblestone dwelling of cubical massing whose original design is no longer apparent because of Others still stand in altered condition. These include 4 Hill and Hollow Lane (c. 1887), a atop the surrounding hills. Many of these towns were eventually annexed by Cincinnati. Stettinius Avenue is a stone vernacular residence built for John Longworth Stettinius c. 1865.
communities near downtown were added to the Queen City's crown.During the 1890s,1900s secluded hilltop setting that conveys some of the ambience of the19th-century estates.The forms and National Register nominations supplied information about specific buildings. away from the central city. As noted previously, a network of suburban communities developed NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 8 Page _13 Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Abstract of the United States [Andriot Associates, 1980]).
to Cincinnati in the 1880s, several years after the new "French flats" had achieved popularity on the East Coast (Elizabeth Cromley, Alone Together: A History of New York's Early Apartments to the present day, were built in the 1880s and 1890s on outlying blocks of the central business district. The Lombardy (1885) in the West Fourth Street Historic District (National Register, 1976), for example, was one of several apartment buildings built in the downtown core during the late 19" century. Others included the Brittany Apartments (1885), the Normandy Apartments (1894) and the Courtland Flats (1902). In the 1880s through the 1900s the firm of Thomas J. Emery's Sons, perhaps the city's most centuries, pioneered the construction of apartment houses in middle-class hilltop neighborhoods.
The Emery firm built blocks of flats along major thoroughfares served by public transportation, become widely accepted, even in conservative midwestern communities such as Cincinnati, and apartment houses were a familiar part of the Queen City's streetscape. century. A city directory published in 1915, two years before the building's conversion to apartments, indicates that the neighborhood was serviced by three streetcar routes. One car line traveled Madison Road eastward to the city limits, and two followed Madison and Erie. A 1931 route listing and map indicates the neighborhood was served by four regular streetcar lines and one commuter (rush-hour only) route; four of these lines traversed Madison and Erie, while the Madison while the other followed a convoluted route including sections of Edwards and Erie.
Studies of other classic apartment buildings in Hyde Park indicate that many tenants of the (8-86) prolific and influential developer of multi-family buildings during the late 19h and early 20th fifth followed Madison out of the city. The neighborhood also had two bus lines: one ran along The increase in the city's population created interest in apartment living. Apartment houses came 1900, 363,591 in 1910 and 401,247 by 1920 (John L. Andriot, compiler and editor, Population Central Hyde Park, in the vicinity of Hyde Park Square, was a convenient location for apartment buildings such as the Weston Flats because it was well served by public transit by the early 20th [Cornell University Press, 1990], p. 101).
The earliest buildings, not all of which have survived result of this expansion, Cincinnati's population climbed from 296,908 in 1890 to 325,902 in so tenants could ride streetcars to jobs downtown.By the early 2o"h century, apartment living had NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Tosca Flats [1915; National Register, 1998], located at Edwards and Observatory, and San Carlos Flats [c. 1920; HAM-6530-10] on Madison Road.) At the same time that apartment buildings were being built on the neighborhood's main streets, older buildings like the Weston were being adapted as multi-family dwellings.
(See also "New uses for old mansions.") The conversion of single-family residences to multi-family units has been a familiar part of urban life since the mid-19t century, when townhouses were converted to tenements to house burgeoning immigrant populations. Multi-family conversions also were common in Cincinnati around the time of World War I-a time of rapid population no longer in the height of social or architectural fashion. Smaller single-family houses also were split into duplexes. A perusal of Cincinnati city directories of 1933-1934 and 1943 suggests apartment conversions were common in older, more densely built sections of the neighborhood For the first three decades of the century, most Hyde Park apartment builders-like those of other were popular as house styles in the neighborhood. This may have been an attempt to present a corner of the square, built in 1904.
residences, also were favored by apartment developers. The Grassmoor Apartments on Madison Road are inspired by the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The Tudor Revival style, represented by a number of buildings, including The Aero at 3634 Edwards Road and two (8-86) neighborhoods-favored either formal, academic styles or picturesque modes: all of which also Neoclassical Revival vocabulary, with prominent cornices, corner quoins, and classical motifs. near Hyde Park Square, parts of which likely were zoned for multi-family or commercial use. distinguished by steep gables, applied half-timbering, stonework and leaded-glass casements, is growth-especially in mature neighborhoods.
The practice continued during the Great Depression Perhaps the most striking example is the A'Laise Apartments (HAM-1303-10) at the southeast Period revival styles, which enjoyed great popularity in the neighborhood for single-family in the neighborhood. Some of the oldest extant apartment blocks in the neighborhood employ a were built.Buildings converted typically were large, older dwellings, such as the Weston House, 1920s and1930s worked in white-collar occupationsin the central business district.(See La of the 1930s, when money was scarce, and the war years of the 1940s, when few new buildings "proper," dignified image attractive to tenants, or simply to maintain an architectural consistency NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio buildings at Madison Road and Kendall Street. Some buildings, such as 2570 Madison Road (1920s) and Georgian Terrace at 2136 Madison Road (1920s), freely combined elements of various styles. The redesign of the Weston House, which combines Neoclassical and Tudor elements, is consistent stylistically with both apartment buildings and single-family homes built in Hyde Park in the first three decades of the 20t century. Weston House. Hamilton County deed records indicate that the Weston House's lot was part of an approximately 106-acre tract of land purchased by Thomas and Mary Morten in June 1868.
The land lay in the northwest corner of Section 26 of Columbia Township; it was described as April 1873 John Henry Weston purchased 15.97 acres of land from Thomas E., Mary G., Andrew The exact construction date of the Weston House has not been determined. While architectural 1870s, old maps suggest it was constructed on the site of an earlier dwelling. It is possible it may incorporate part of the earlier structure, although this is not evident from the exterior. (The construction of a new, more elaborate estate residence on the site of an earlier dwelling was a common practice in Cincinnati's leafy suburbs in the second half of the 19t century, as Morten," in the northwest corner of Section 26. Titus' 1869 atlas notes a dwelling, labeled "John house sits in the extreme northwest corner of the Morten tract: the approximate location of the present building.
An unidentified photograph of the house, taken in September 1877, shows the house sitting on a low rise; the stark appearance of its surroundings, with young trees and little Cincinnati map notes both the house and a carriage house, a small, square structure; a driveway plot measuring 648.7 by 1072-1/2 feet. The Weston House's property was bounded by Edwards Road on the west, Observatory on the north, the rear of Morten Street on the east, and the Arnold clues and archival records (old photographs, city directories) suggest the house was built in the landscaping, suggest it had been built recently. (See photocopy.) Robinson and Pidgeon's 1883 Through the years the property gradually diminished in size; the remnant remained in the Weston (8-86) contemporary histories record.) Emerson's 1847 county atlas indicates a house, labeled *J.
Morten,"on the eastern half of a 15.97-acre parcel (likely the same tract sold to Weston). The G.and Mary H.Morten.The land ostensibly sold for $1.00; the real price is not recorded. family until 1955. being"in the eastern part of the city of Cincinnati,"although it was actually outside the city.In winds south through the property from Observatory Avenue. The house occupied a rectangular NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio buildings and flats." Directories of the 1930s and 1940s offer some basic information about the address, does not list any occupations for the residents.) Most of the building's occupants were district. Among the residents in 1936-1937 were Charles S.
Kelley, a clerk with the Army Residents in 1949 included building owners Dr. Robert E. and Margaret W. Slemmer; Mrs. Rose "Western Flats" in 1924; it has since reverted to its original name. The sophistication of the Weston's 1917 renovation, and its sensitivity to the house's original character, suggests it was carried out with the aid of an architect, who has not been identified. Architectural historian Walter E. Langsam of the University of Cincinnati has attributed it to the Anderson were among Cincinnati's leading architects of the early 20t century. Although they carried out several high-profile commercial commissions in this period, they specialized in transitional Romanesque Revival to American Colonial Revival, including sophisticated Craftsman, Tudor Revival and eclectic dwellings. Colonial Revival became their dominant mode once Anderson joined the firm.
"...[T]he firm also used other fairly authentic period styles but carried out any other renovation projects of this type. The original architect of the Weston House has not been identified (Williams' Cincinnati City Directory, 1878). His business was located on Sixth Street in (8-86) Kattenhorn property on the south. (See map copy.) Organized Reserve Corps; Maurie Jacobs, an insurance agent; and Sallie Hance, a widow. B.Nottingham, widow; Mabel Morsbach, schoolteacher; William H. Makepeace, manufacturer's local firm of Alfred O. Elzner (1862-1933) and George M. Anderson (1869-1916). Elzner and The Weston Flats is first listed in the 1917 Cincinnati city directory, under the heading "Public Weston family. John Henry Weston, also known as J.H. or Henry Weston, was a "manufacturer residences.
They designed numerous distinguished houses in Hyde Park in a range of styles from employed in white-collar or professional occupations; the majority worked in the central business building's early tenants.(The 1926-1927 directory, one of the first to be cross-indexed by street agent;and William H. Makepeace (presumably a relative), salesman.The building was renamed the treatment was generally quite severe in massing and detail"(Walter E. Langsam, Great Houses of the Queen City[Cincinnati Historical Society,1997]). It is not known whether the firm and dealer in galvanized, carbonized, copper and cable lightning rods, points, insulators, etc" Section Page 6 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio wide as 'Mr.
Weston, the lightning rod man.' His lightning rods and weather vanes, works of art in wrought iron, were as ornamental as they were functional" (J.H. Weston, clipping file, City directories of the 1860s indicate that Weston resided in East Walnut Hills, which may well have included what is now Hyde Park. No street address is given. In 1874 and 1877, however, he the eastern suburbs: his residence is given as "Linwood Road, Walnut Hills." The 1881 edition lists his address as the southeast corner of Edwards Road and Mount Lookout Avenue, which appears to be the intersection of present-day Edwards and Observatory. (The surrounding streets old widower, also lived with the family. The enumerator noted that John Henry Weston had been born in Pennsylvania, as had his parents. Mary Weston was born in Washington, D.C. Her John Henry Weston died on May 6, 1906.
His will provided for a home for his widow for her an annual annuity of $1,000. His will also expressed concern, albeit equivocal, for the preservation of the family home: it specified, "I prefer that my family continue to live at the homestead as now, at least until said homestead may be sold." All of his property was to be divided equally between Harry and Maggie. Weston left an estate valued at $105,200. Following Weston's death, his widow and children moved out of the homestead into residences nearby. As of 1906, the family resided at 2725 Observatory Avenue. A year later Mary and Harry Weston moved to 2741 Observatory. By 1912 the family members resided in newly built lifetime, including household expenses, servants, supplies and all household comforts, as well as resided in downtown Cincinnati, perhaps because of the demands of his business.
It is possible dwellings on Michigan Avenue, near the homestead: Harry Weston at 1296, and Mary and Cincinnati Historical Society library). The 1891 city directory describes him as a dealer in downtown Cincinnati. An undated newspaper clipping says of him, "[He] was known far and copper and steel. he used the property as a summer residence during this time. By 1879 Weston had moved back to The 1880 federal population census noted that the Weston household included J.H. Weston, age NPS Form 10-900-a had not yet been platted.) (8-86) father had been born in Switzerland, and her mother in New Jersey. 50; his wife, Mary, age 50; son Harry, 17; and daughter Maggie, 15. James Weston, an 82-year- Section Page 7 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio subsequent editions. Directories of the 1900s and 1910s indicate that Harry Weston was a realtor who maintained an office in downtown Cincinnati, from which he presumably oversaw the development of the Weston Subdivision, as well as other real estate interests. Harry Weston died in 1930. He left half his estate to his widow, Sarah Curtis Weston, and half to his daughter, Margaret. Sarah Weston remained at 1296 Michigan Avenue after her husband's death. Maggie Weston, who never married, died in 1940. She left half of her $75,000 estate to During the 1930s Margaret Weston married Robert E. Slemmer, a physician. From 1948 or 1949 through 1954, the couple occupied apartments 1 and 2 of the Weston Flats.
Margaret Weston Slemmer conveyed half of her inheritance to the Central Trust Company in 1942, and the other incompetent. In 1955 the bank filed an order of sale for the entire lot, either by private sale or public auction. It was subsequently sold privately to Mercedes Robbert. Cincinnati directories note that Robbert was an office secretary for the Interchem Corporation. She was married to Road in eastern Cincinnati. Integrity. The integrity of the Weston House was been preserved by two specific conditions, all of the physical features that made up its character and appearance during its period of significance. The exterior of the building has seen only minor alterations since 1917: a window was inserted in a former doorway in the north face, and metal storm windows have been added.
(8-86) consistently high property values, which justified maintaining the original configuration of the uncommon in urban neighborhoods: a long tenure by one owner (the Weston family), and replacement of light fixtures and remodeling of kitchens and bathrooms. Therefore the building her sister-in-law, Sarah, and half to her niece, Margaret. The present owners purchased the Weston House in1999.They are presently renovating the building and updating its mechanical systems while preserving its character and details. Walter J. Robbert, an expediter for the Schaible Company. The couple lived on Duck Creek apartments rather than subdividing them into smaller spaces. The Weston House retains nearly half in 1947.
The bank controlled the other half of Lot 21, as guardian of Sarah Weston, an The apartment interiors also have seen only cosmetic alterations such as painting of woodwork, Section _ Page 18 NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio (8-86) exhibits a high degree of historic integrity under all its aspects. Section 8 Page 19 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 9. Major bibliographic references Andriot, John L., compiler and editor. Population Abstract of the United States. McLean, Va.: Andriot Associates, 1980. pp. 201-217 Cigliano, Jan.
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"Hyde Park," clipping file. Cincinnati Preservation Association. Kraemer's Picturesque Cincinnati. Cincinnati: A.O. and G.A. Kraemer, 1898. Great Houses of the Queen City. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Historical Society, 1997. Maxwell, Sidney D. The Suburbs of Cincinnati. Cincinnati: G.E. Stevens, 1870. Reprint, Arno Historic Preservation Office, Columbus. (8-86) 1988. 1883-1884. Robinson, E., and R.H. Pidgeon. Atlas of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio. New York: E. Robinson, Mitchell, Fred."The Alexandra," National Register nomination. 1996. Copies available at Ohio Hyde Park Business Club.Hyde Park in Its Glory: A Historical Sketch, 1908. Cincinnati "Hyde Park Subdivision," n.d. Cincinnati Historical Society, Cincinnati. Press, 1974. Page Langsam, Walter E. Interview by Margo Warminski, May 30, 2000. Langsam, Walter E."Biographical Dictionary of Cincinnati Architects."" Typescript, n.d.
NPS Form 10-900-a OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Sanborn Map Company. "Cincinnati, Ohio." New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1904, 1917. Shapiro, Henry, and Zane Miller. Clifton: Neighborhood and Community in an Urban Setting. A Brief History. Cincinnati, Ohio: The Laboratory in American Civilization, 1976. Ohio Historic Preservation Office, Columbus. "Weston, J.H," clipping file. Cincinnati Historical Society library. Williams' Cincinnati City Directories, various years. (8-86) Warminski, Margo."La Tosca Flats," National Register nomination. 1998. Copies available at Page 3 Section 9 OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 10 Page 1 Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio The John Henry Weston House is located within the corporate limits of Cincinnati. It occupies Lot 21 of the H.J. and M. E. Weston Subdivision, fronting 150 feet on the west side of Michigan Avenue and extending back between parallel lines for a distance of 200 feet. (Please refer to building. (8-86) plat.) 10. Geographical Data Verbal boundary description Verbal boundary justification NPS Form 10-900-a The nominated property includes the parcel of land historically and visually associated with the OMB No.
1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio 12. Additional documentation Name of property: John Henry Weston House (same for all photographs) Photographer: Margo Warminski (same for all photographs) View: Main (east) facade, looking west. Photo 3 Photo 5 Photo 6 View: Front entry hall and main staircase. Photo 7 View: Entrance hall, first-floor north apartment. Photo 8 (8-86) Photograph key View: Two-tier porch, main facade; looking northwest. View: Main entrance, east elevation; looking west. View: Rear (west) elevation, looking northeast.
Location: Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio (same for all photographs) NPS Form 10-900-a Location of negatives: Grandin Properties (same for all photographs) View: North elevation, with tower; looking southwest. Date taken: December 2000 (same for all photographs) View: South elevation, looking northwest. Photo 2 Photo 4 Photo 1 Section 12 Page 1 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Section 12 Page 2 Weston, John Henry, House Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio View: Mantelpiece, living room, first-floor north apartment. Photo 10 View: Kitchen, first-floor north apartment. Photo 12 View: Doorway, third-floor apartment. Photo 15 porch. (8-86) View: Living room, first-floor north apartment. View: Garage, looking west. Photo 13 View: Living room, third-floor apartment.
View: View of east side of 1300 block of Michigan Avenue; looking northeast from third-floor Photo 14 NPS Form 10-900-a Photo 9 Photo 11 LOCATION MAP Weston House: 1321 Michigan Ave Carriage House: 1303 Michigan Ave Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Feet 1303 Michigan Avenue / MICHIGAN AV EDWARDS RD HANDASYDE AV HAMPSHIRE AV 100 PERKINS LN J Pend ANDERSON /Marsh TIV CREEK FBI24 John Henry Weston House 1869 Hamilton Co. atlas 1321 Michigan Avenue SPENCER Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio 15 50 Ohio. 1883 Cincinnati atlas. PAXTON John Henry Weston House,1321 Michigan 12723ft --E DWA R-D S-- 843 9.25CM 50a. John Henry Weston House 1321 Michigan Avenue 1877 photographic. view Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio John Henry Weston House, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio View of house from Kramer's Picturesque Cincinnati (1898) RESIDENCE OF H. J. WESTON, HYDE PARK.
John Henry Weston House 1321 Michigan Avenue Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Cincinnati neighborhood map COLLEGE HILL WINTON HILLS MT, AIRY KENNEDY HEIGHTS BOND HILL PLEASANT RIDGE ST.BERNARD PADDOCK/HILLS SOUTH CUMMINSYULE EAST WESTWOOD ENGLISH WOODS HYDE PARK EAST HILLS MT.
AUBURN SAYLER PARK WEST PRICE HILL WEST END COLUMBIA TUSÇÜLUM LOWER PRICE HILL EAST END Cincinnatis Neighborhoods Prepared by City Planning Dept CALIFORNIA SEDAMSVILLE NORTHSIDE MADISONVILLE CORRYVILLE RIVERSIDE ROSELAWN EVANSTON HEIGHTS CUF MILLVALE CLIFTON NORWOOD WINTON PLACE CARTHAGE NORTH AVONDALE OVER-THE-RHINE MT-WASHINGTON QUEENSGATE PENDLETON CAMPWASHINGTON FAY APARTMENTS Cincinnati, HARTWELL OHIO ELMWOOD OAKLEY AVONDALE LINWOOD SOUTH EAIRMOUNT MTAOOKOUT CNTY F* (CRANCH AV.) John Henry Weston House 1321 Michigan Avenue 1917 Sanborn map Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Closet M John Henry Weston House 1321 Michigan Avenue Back Door Bedroom Bath Dining Room Weston Flats Entrance Hall Kitchen Bed/Office Fireplace Front Door 1321 Michigan Pantry/Closet Apartment floor plan (north) Approximately 2050 sq. ft.
Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio Three Bedroom Apartment Porch 16' 10 Cincinnati, Hamilton Co.. Ohio John Henry Weston House Back Door Front Door Bedroom Bath Dining Room Weston Flats Kitchen 1321 Michigan Avenue Closet Fireplace Pantry Butler's Apartment floor plan (south) Approximately 1400 sq. ft.
Entrance Hall 1321 Michigan 5'× 10 Porch UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/ RETURN SHEET Weston, John Henry, House NAME : DATE OF 16TH DAY: DATE OF 45TH DAY: REFERENCE NUMBER: APPEAL: N PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: N SLR DRAFT: N COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS : REJECT DATE 02000218 RETURN TELEPHONE MULTIPLE 3/10/02 3/21/02 2/04/02 DISCIPLINE PROPERTY 2/22/02 ACCEPT REVIEWER NATIONAL: RECOM./CRITERIA OTHER: DATE RECEIVED: Bntered in the REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF PENDING LIST: LESS THAN 5O YEARS: National Register STATE & COUNTY: OHIO, Hamilton PERIOD: PDIL: SAMPLE: The 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC 39084-B4-TF-024 CINCINNATI EAST QUADRANGLE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CINCINNATI EAST, OHIO UTM Coordinates!
UNITED STATES ROAD CLASSIFICATION GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 805 Central Avenue Suite 720 August 29, 2001 Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (513) 352-4853 Fax Elizabeth A. Blume, AICP State Historic Preserration Officer Director of City Planning 567 East Hudson Street Columbus, Ohio 43211-2037 Dear Mr. Loveday, The Cincinnati Historic Conservation Board unanimously supports the nomination of the John Henry Weston House to the National Register of Historic Places. The Board reviewed the nomination at its meeting on August 20, 2001.
A copy of the staff report and the draft the registration form being revised to demonstrate clearly that the building meets Criterion A should document that the John Henry Weston House is a significant example of a typical adaptive reuse of a single-family residence; this type of development occurred as the City of Cincinnati annexed suburban neighborhoods into the larger urban community in the early William L. Forwood, Jr. Historic Conservation Office Steve Gordon Equal Opportunity Employer City of Cincinnati Sincerely, Amos J. Loveday, Jr. Although the Board was very supportive of the nomination, its support was conditional on Thank you for the opportunity to review this nomination. If you have any questions about cc: Margaret Warminski (513) 352-4880 City Planning Department Urban Conservator Board minutes are enclosed. for listing in the National Register.
Specifically, the Board indicated the registration form Two Centennial Plaza the Historic Conservation Board's review, please call me at (513) 352-4853. 20"h century. REC'D BY OHPO AUG 3 12001
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