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Decorative drawing: a hillside burying ground with slate headstones and an iron gate. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Spring Grove Cemetery Chapel

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 689 words across 5 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 80003086, 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. 4. Present Name(s) 5. Other Name(s) 3. Location of Negatives 6. Specific Location 16. Thematic Category 28. No. of Stories Basement? Yes C 17. Date(s) or Period 30. Foundation Material If Rural, Township & Vicinity 7. City or Town 31. Wall Construction 8. Site Plan with North Arrow 19. Architect or Engineer 32. Roof Type & Material Spring ( 20. Contractor or Builder 33. No. of Bays Front 1 21. Original Use, If apparent 34. Wall Treatment 35. Plan Shape Latin cross 23. Ownership Changes Private 8 Altered - 9. Coordinates in #42) Moved O U.T.M. Reference 3 3 7|7 3 25. Open to Preservation Site O Structure D Building X Object O 26. Local Contact Person or Organization Endangered? 11. On National Visible from Hist. Dist.? 41. Distance from and August, 1978. 42.

Further Description of Important Features A large mutiple paned window, imported from Munich, Germany, narrower in width than the chapel, exhibits tooled sandstone arches. 43. History and Significance Plans for a large rural cemetery were unveiled on April 14, 1844, and by 1845 160 acres the initial landscape designer, it was the Austrian Adolph Strauch who, in the 1850"s, 44. Description of Environment and Outbuildings 45. Sources of Information 46. Prepared by 47. Organization Cist, Charles. 48. Date 49. Revision Date(s) Cincinnati: Wm. H. Moore & Co., 1851. 1879-1881 Cincinnati County Zone Easting Lat. Underway? Cemetery 11/78 Register? unknown Ohio Historical Center Side Cincinnati Historic Inventory. District WINTON CREEK Chape Frontage on Road Long.

Steve Gordon Samuel Hannaford Ohio Historic Preservation Office Hamilton County Courthouse National Register nomination form Miami Purchase Association Personal observation. Spring Grove Cemetery Chapel Interior standing Romanesque port cochere marks the southwestern facade. coarsed ashlar limest. The Cemetery of Spring Grove City of Cincinnati Planning Comm. (Explain Hamilton Northing GROVE The Spring Grove Cemetery Chapel is located a short distance southwest of the main entrance 27. Other Surveys in Which Included The Spring Grove Cemetery 22. Present Use OHIO HISTORIC INVENTORY Public Road? Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in l85l. 4521 Spring Grove Avenue By What? This random ashlar limestone chapel was designed with a Latin cross if known Addition O 24. Owner's Name & Address, 13. Part of Estab. Yes & 15.

Name of Established District coarsed ashlar Exterior excellent dominates the northeastern gable end.The port cochere, which is were purchased by the Spring Grove Cemetery Association.Although John Notman served as random ashlar limestone and gate house.The gate house is a strong focal point and was designed by James Keys Eligible? gabled: gray slate 27. (continued) Crowe, Michael. A Preliminary Documentation of the Career of Samuel Hannaford (1835-1911). Master's Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 1977. Sandstone is also used as a trim on the gable ends, water table, window surrounds, and The Spring Grove Chapel, totally intact, was designed by Samuel Hannaford in 1879, appealing for its careful landscaping, plantings, and Victorian mausoleums. graves of many locally and nationally prominent individuals, but is aesthetically also renowned for its instructive arboretum.

The original section of the cemetery is listed in the National Register. tains many outstanding examples of Victorian crypt and Mausoleum architecture, is and is an excellent example of medieval Romanesque architecture. Cincinnati: Weisen-Hart Press, 1943. porte cochere. Works Projects Administration.Cincinnati:A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors.

Small crosses adorn the gable ends.The window fenestration and crypt bay buttresses.A Catherine (wheel) window with radial mullions enhances the gable of the State OH-Hamilton ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory _ National Register Write-up Entered - Federal Register Entry OTHER KEEPER HAER CONTROL TECHNICAL Send-back HISTORIAN MAR ARCHEOLOGIST Maps Re-submit BRANCH CHIEF REVIEW UNIT 2.26.80 Working Number 1/-15- 79 2777 Photosl2g REVIEW UNIT CHIEF United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO N Missing Core Documentation Hannaford, Samuel, & Sons Thematic Resource in Hamilton Hamilton, Ohio X Photographs County 80003086 Chapel USGS Map Property Name The following Core Documentation is missing from this entry: Multiple Property Name Nomination Form County, State Spring Grove Cemetery Reference Number Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000626 Multiple Property Cover Sheet Please refer to the map in the for this property