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Decorative drawing: a one-room schoolhouse with a bell cupola. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Our Lady of Mercy High School

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,170 words across 15 pages, filed in 1980. 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 80003070, 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.

The nomination, in full

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

Columbus, Ohio 43211 1. NO. HAM-2219-43 4. Present Name(s) 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories Basement? Yes X 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material rock 7. City or Town If Rural, Township & Vicinity 18. Style or Design 31. Wall Construction 19. Architect or Engineer 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 32. Roof Type & Material 20. Contractor or Builder hip: shingle No. of Bays 21. Original Use, If apparent 22. Present Use TERMINAL ( 35. Plan Shape "L" 23. Ownership 36. Changes Addition - Private O Altered - 9. Coordinates in #42) Moved O Condition U.T.M. Reference 7 13 3 1 760 25. Open to Preservation Site D Structure D Building X Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National By What? 27. Other Surveys in Which Included 13. Part of Estab. Yes District 40. Visible from Hist. Dist.? 15.

Name of Established District 41. Distance from and Inventory; August, 1978. (over) 15' 150'x300' 42. Further Description of Important Features sided tower with arched belfries and octagonal slate cap. The front facade exhibits a Flemish parapet and cross, arched bays on the first floor, slightly projecting end pavilions, and a wrought 43. History and Significance This building, designed by Samuel Hannaford & Sons, was built as an academy in 1897. The 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by Organization Date 49. Revision Date(s) 1897 Hamilton Cincinnati Side Register? Queensgate Easting 12/78 Front Northing County Zone Cincinnati Job Corps Center Long. Underway? brick unknown ARMORY 12/76 Lat.

ciation Cincinnati Historic Ohio Historical Center Frontage on Road proposed demolition Department of Labor Miami Purchase Association (Explain CHARLES Steve Gordon Exterior fair Personal observation Ohie Historic Preservation Office Large scale 4 story building distinguished by pressed yellow purpose of the society was.to nurse the sick, visit prisoners, help the needy, educate Public Road? UNION Located on the northwestern corner of Kenner Street and Western Avenue.The Union Ter- the City Departments of the City of Cincinnati Fiscal Year Ending National Guard Armory are located immediately to the north.District potential.

FLINT Cincinnati City Planning Com- 1409 Western Avenue School United States of America Interior Samuel Hannaford & Sons minal promenade is to the south and the Italianate Joseph Magrue house and Eclectic Ohio "academy" 34.Wall Treatment pressed within the corner of this building is a tall stepped back four Cincinnati Order of Our Lady of Mercy was established by Sister McAuley in 1858.The Our Lady of Mercy High School if known mission & Miami Purchase Asso- 24. Owner's Name & Address, 1. No. the young, and provide food and clothing to needý families. The old Greek Revival (over) Hamilton County Courthouse, Book 143, Page 5, Parcel 70. December 31, 1897. Cincinnati: Commercial Gazette Job Print, brick wall treatment and Renaissnace overtones.

Slightly recessed High Other Renaissance influences stretcher/brick offices and storage OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Mercy faced random ashlar "Annual Report of the Inspector of Buildings,"in Annual Report of Eligible? 27. (continued) Crowe, Michael. A Preliminary Documentation of the Career of Samuel Hannaford (1835-1911). Cincinnati: Weisen-Hart Press, 1943. south facade is distinguished. by slightly projecting pavilions, occasional use of arched In 1928 the academy was converted into a high school for Catholic girlis, and had enrollment of Album Publishing Co., 1896. South and east facade Northwest Register. Looking northwest South facade, Looking The south side of the front facade is marked by bowed two story bay windows.The 13 bay Works Projects Administration Cincinnati:A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors.

entrance, as does an ashlar wall on the Western Avenue facade, hip dormers.Other noteworthy features include continuous lintels.and lugsills, a raised Master's Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1977. 1978,the Secretary of the Interior determined this building to be eligible for the National building was demolished in 1897 to make way for a new academy, which cost $125,000 to build. ashlar foundation, and various religious symbols on the front facade.

A chapel is attached to the rear.A rusticated limestone frontispiece and cartouche accentuates the main NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES HERITAGE CONSERVATION_AND RECREATION SERVICE Request submitted by:_ additional infornation received 6/30/78 State: Ohio Location: Cincinnati Opinion of the State l'istoric Preservation Officer: (x) Eligible The Secretary of the Interior has determined that this property is: it has played in the community since 1895. Keeper of the National Register 5/22/78 Comments: Date: Samuel Hannaford and is an impressive Renaissance Revival Style additional materials required) () Documentation insufficient (see accompanying sheet explaining Date request received: DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY NOTIFICATION OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION HUD /CD .Ms. Nell D. Surher () Not eligible structure.

In addition, it is significant for the educational role Name of property: Our Lady of Mercy Hieh School KASO_155 J.-MT. CARMEL Home FRED J. MORR, COUNTY AUDITOR -CHAPEL 100 CONVENT 5=BR REVALUATION OF HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO 4.-LAUNDRy Room. -2 20 _5X2D 100 3040 201 2364 FR.BAY L332 OMP 3x1 attendance of 80 pupils under the direction of the Sisters of Mercy. ACADEMY OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY, Freeman Avenue and Kenner Street. - A select academy for young girls, having an CONVENT OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY SOURCE: Goss, Charles Frederick. Cincinnati, The The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912.

Looking southwest ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory - Entered - OTHER KEEPER CONTROL HAER TECHNICAL Maps Review HISTORIAN ARCHEOLOGIST Send-back MAR Re-submit REVIEW UNIT CHIEF BRANCH CHIEF National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry Photos l2g State OH-Hamilton United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO N Working Number 1/-15- 79 2777 accept NOV 1 5 1979 August, 1978 South & east facades, looking northwest Miami Purchase Association Building #51 Steve Gordon Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Photograph # MAD NOV 1 5 1979 MAR 3 August, 1978 South facade, looking north 1980 Building #32 Miami Purchase Association Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Steve Gordon Sisters of Mercy Academy Photograph # NOV 1 5.

1379 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio November, 1978 Southeast corner, looking northwest Miami Purchase Association Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Building #32 Steve Gordon Photograph # Sisters of Mercy Academy November, 1978 South facade, looking northwest Miami Purchase Association Building #32 Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Steve Gordon MAR'31980 Cincinnati,Hamilton County, Ohio Photograph # NOV 1 5 19/9 An Sisters of Mercy Academy Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio MAR 3 November, 1978 Building #32 Steve Gordon Miami Purchase Association Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Photograph #7///29 East facade, looking northwest 1980 NOV 1 5 1979 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio November, 1978 Steve Gordon Miami Purchase Association Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Tower detail, looking southwest Sisters of Mercy Academy Building #32 Photograph #72//29 NOV 1 5 1979 MAR 3 August, 1978 1980 Miami Purchase Association Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio South & east facades, looking northwest Steve Gordon Buildings # 32 & 48 Thematic Resources of Samuel Hannaford Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number:64000626 Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property