Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Taft Museum

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,492 words across 18 pages, filed in 1973. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 73001470, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Congressional District: 2 Donald D. Clancy Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Dec.
1968) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE County O INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) JAN 2 9 1975 NAME ANP/OR HISTORIC: (Check One) OWNERS NAME: COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: TITLE OF SURVEY: DATE OF SURVEY: Local X DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Also H.A.B.S., 1934 Transportation Military Cincinnati LOCATION Hamilton Site Government Comments CLASSIFICATION Religious Park STATE ACCESSIBLE Commercial Restricted Industrial Structure Private REGISTER 061 STATUS Unoccupied CATEGORY District NATIONAL DATE Educational Agricultural Building OWNERSHIP Cincinnati City Hall Entertainment Scientific CODE Both Being Considered Hamilton County Court House Private Residence Taft Museum COMMON: Preservation work Public Acquisition: Court and Main Streets NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES TO THE PUBLIC Object LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION Public ENTRY NUMBER OWNER OF PROPERTY REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS 3l6 Pike Street In Process Other (Specify) Ohio STREET AND NUMBER: 80l Plum Street 44l Vine Street CITY OR TOWN: Federal O PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) 1960 Yes: The Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts (Check One) Excellent X Deteriorated O Unexposed O Unaltered X Original Site X DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

When transformed into a museum, the house was restored on the basis of an 1857 color print, and the interior colors CONDITION Moved INTEGRITY DESCRIPTION NATIONAL REGISTER Ruins lions form a wheel spoke design.This design is repeated and appointments were returned to those of a gracious stone steps to the handsome entrance provide a fitting terminus to the visual axis from East Fourth Street through RECEIVED early nineteenth century home. floor length double hung windows of the drawing room. is fronted with an imposing portico, whose Tuscan Pillars, The entrance portal is flanked by slender sidelights and This elegant white frame mansion is a highly refined section and the two wings a good half story above grade.
capped by an elliptical fanlight in which the window mul- in the seven elliptical windows in the second story of the Greek pediment, curved iron railings leading up the sand- and a high basement with grilled windows holds the center center unit is a long porch which commands a view of a JUN 29 1972 Fair O lovely formal garden. Access to this porch is through The two story center unit center unit and in the pediment.Across the rear of the Lytle Park.The center unit is flanked by two story wings, example of the Federal style.
PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) 1820 itarian 9 197e work of either Benjamin Latrobe or James Hoban, the architects the title of the property to his bank, a female seminary, the throughout the public rooms and hallways of the house, and it includes about 100 paintings by French, English, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and American artists, French enamels from the thir- teenth to the seventeenth centuries, Italian majolicas, six- teenth century crystal and jewelry, some ceramics, a collection many artists, writers, musicians, and socialite Cincinnatians came here to attend receptions, dinners, musicals, and balls. Robert Owen; Frances Trollope; Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar; Conservation Engineering Military Communications Architecture Commerce

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

SIGNIFICANCE Landscape Aboriginal Political Religion/Phi- Agriculture Invention Literature Pre-Columbian losophy Education Industry Art Prehistoric Music Urban Planning After certain requirements specified by the Tafts were met, the Carinal Mercer.William Howard Taft was notified of his nomi- of watches dating from the sexteenth to the nineteenth centuries home and their art collection to the people of Cincinnati. Sculpture purchased by Nicholas Longworth in 1830, and the Longworth William Henry Harrison; Albert, King of the Belgians; and Other (Specify) This house was originally built/for Martin Baum, a Cin 20th Century nation for the Presidency in l908 on the portico steps of the During the century that the house was used asa residence, and a collection of about 2oo Chinese vases and porcelains.
family sold the house to David Sinton in l87l./After Charles house was restored and opened to the public as a museum on of the White House.After Martin Baum was forced to transfer Phelps Taft married Anna Sinton in the Taft (Check One or More as Appropriate) November 29, 1932. nati's historic preservation districts. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

(Include Personages, Dates, Events, Etc.) after, Mr and Mrs. Taft announced that they would give their house. Today, the house is the key element in one of Cincin- the Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts was formed.Shortly The Taft Art Collection is displayed AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE Among the list of notables who were honored in the house are home.At the suggestion of Mrs.Charles Phelps Taft in 1927, cinnati capitalist, ca. 18l9-20.It has been reputed to be the 10.

The rest of the file

Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN ONE ACRE W 84 Acreage: ca. 2 FORM PREPARED BY August, 1971 STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I herebv certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: Local ATTEST Seconds DATE Degrees ORGANIZATION LONGITUDE Cincinnati LATITUDE COUNTY STATE Minutes National Its Neighbors.
Title CODE CORNER MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Degrees Minutes Seconds NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the 812 Dayton Street Ohio NAME AND TITLE: (Cincinnati: The Wiesen-Hart Press, 1943)- John C. Garner, Jr., Executive Director Chiet, Office of Archeology and His Miami Purchase Association 126-23 JAN 2 9 1973 ARCHEOLOGIST Maps KEEPER Acknowledge Register no. ARCHITECT Re-submit Working number Federal Register entry HISTORIAN HABS Send-back National Register write-up EDITORIAL REVIEW BRANCH CHIEF TECH REVIEW Photos meau STATEOAO Fed Rag. Martin Baum House (West Facade), Cincinnati, Ohio Photo Taft Museum CINCINNATI 2, OHIO, U. S. A.
Cincinnati, Ohio NEGATIVE ARTIST NUMBER SUBJECT S.1959.1 SCHOOL THE TAFT MUSEUM THE TAFT MUSEUM Reproductions of this photograph must be accompanied by the words:Taft Museum Martin Baum House, Cincinnati, Ohio Photo Taft Museum CINCINNATI 2, OHIO, U. S. A. 1932.223 NEGATIVE SUBJECT NUMBER THE TAFT MUSEUM THE TAFT MUSEUM ( Portico) ARTIST SCHOOL Reproductions of this photograph must be accompanied by the words:Taft Museum Martin Baum House (Malta Gray Room), Cincinnati, Ohio Photo Taft Museum CINCINNATI 2, OHIO, U. S. A. CINCINNATI, OHIO ARTIST NEGATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER SCHOOL SUBJECT NUMBER GEORGE STILLE MALTA GRAY ROOM THE TAFT MUSEUM Reproductions of this photograph must be accompanied by the words:Taft Museum Duncanson Taft Museum Mural Oil on Plaster, Robert S. Photo Credit: Taft Museum CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202 U.S.A.
ARTIST American, 1821-1871 1932.239 NUMBER NEGATIVE SCHOOL SUBJECT Mural - Oil on plaster THE TAFT MUSEUM Duncanson, Robert S. Reproductions of this photograph must be accompanied by the words:Taft Museum Duncanson Taft Museum Mural Oil on Plaster, Robert S. Photo Credit: Taft Museum Form 10-301 (July 1969) FOR NPS USE ONLY STREET AND NUM BER: REQUIR EMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.
039 1954 Cincinnati JAN COUNTY 061 STATE CODE REGISTER 1:2400 COMMON: Hamilton Taft Museum DATE: SCALE: SOURCE: Ohio ENTRY NUMBER NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CITY OR TOWN: PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries-attach to or enclose with map) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES MAP REFERENCE 316 Pike Street UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE OF KENTUCKY COVINGTON QUADRANGLE CITY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY METROPOLITAN TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY METROPOLITAN AREA CINCINNATI SHEET NO.335 HAMILTON COUNTY JUN 29 1972 EDITION OF 1954 OHIO EDEN JAN 2 9 1973 Hami1ton County Hon. William B. Saxbe Mr. Daniel R. Porter Bon. Robert Taft, Jr.
Columbus, Ohio 43211 Director, Northeast Region NRowland :mm Location 1/29/73 STATE Name PHR Cincinnati Date Entered Also Notified Covenant-First Presbyterian Church ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER The Ohio Historical Society State Liaison Officer (Martin) House Hon. Donald D. Clancy OHIO TAFT MUSEUM 1. MISSING - 2. REMOVED/ 3. NHL 4. TR 6. OVER- . 7. NPS - 8. DOE - 9. RESTRICTED Available on: Microfiche ( ); Optical Disk () Baum-Taft house (Where found, or source of replacement) WASO 21 JAN.
1986 DEMOLISHED 73001470 (County) Locator Card UNDOCUMENTED 5.MRA COMMENTS: EXPLANATION: SIZED STATUS: (State) National Register of Historic Places OWNER OBJECTION (Date Removed) (Date Found/Replaced) (Date Designated) (Current source of partial documentation) (Location of oversize file) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Cause for removal) HAMILTON (Target Date) (lf multi-state/county MRA, state/county where filed and location) (NHL Name, if different than NRHP Name) (Resource Name) (Reference Number|s) (TR or MRA Name) Missing Status:Entire (Date form compleied) TAFT OHIO