Nomination for Lillybanks

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OMB NO. 1024-0018 EXP. IC/31/84 National Park Service See instructions in How to Complete National Register Forms street & number city, town Ohio 45208 State .district _ unoccupied _ museum X building(s) X private _ structure - work in progress _ site _ object - in process - yes: unrestricted . scientific - transportation . military _ other: 5. Location of Legal Description - yes XX no August, 1978 Lillybanks Category code government date both county Accessible educational commercial Hamilton entertainment religious industrial Ownership agriculture historic private residence title Ohio public Inventory-Nomination Form Cincinnati Public Acquisition 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Type all entries-complete applicable sections Miami Purchase Association For Historic Preservation Cincinnati, Ohio N/A vicinity of Present Use 2. Location 3.

Classification National Register of Historic Places being considered NPS Form 10-900 John and Margaret H. Wyant Court and Main Streets 4. Owner of Property date entered depository for survey records N/A not for publication Cincinnati Historic Inventoryhas this property been determined eligible? United States Department of the Interior and/or common Ohio 45202 2386 Grandin Road For NPS use only 1. Name N/A vicinity of (7-81) received JUN 9 |983 - park courthouse, registry of deeds, etc. ö12 Dayton Street, Cincinnati 061 Status Hamilton County Courthouse 7. Description % original site X unaltered _ moved date narrow rectangle, with small end wings. The two and a half story gable roofed structure is made of squared rubble stone. The tall rectangular chimneys, the lower half of squared rubble stone, the upper half The solarium wing, with buttressed corners, is on the east facade.

The arcade of The design of the north facade, now the entrance facade, is more informal than the The windows are leaded pane, metal casement type. All of the window openings have been covered, on the exterior, with modern storm windows. with a stylized basket design intertwining with the grapevines, bounded by rope bands. unexposed the simple carved stone fireplace.The grapevine theme is repeated in the brass wall sconces in this room. is missing its stone finial.Dressed stone quoining and window architraves mark the two dressed stone architraves and quoining.

decorative dressed stone string course deliniates the division between the first and second Condition a doorway.The dressed stone quoin surrounds were extended to match the original stone not divided.All of the windows are divided by verticle stone mullions and surrounded by was used as vineyards in Longworth's successful winemaking industry. This was apparently Describe the present and original (if known) physical appearance

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stylized flower is also part of the design.The flower and a quatrefoil design appear on quoined dressed stone architraves and are generally massed in groups of two or four.A This Tudor Revival Style house was completed in 1926.Its basic plan shape is a large segmental arched windows with dressed stone architraves mark three sides of the first treatment.Two round arch porch openings in the kitchen wing have been filled in to wall dormer is more simply treated with a row of four mullioned windows on the first story and a set of two on the second story.The enclosed porch has a parapet gable and a buttress Road to a small street behind the house.This was done because of the development of the Check one In 1982 a window in the western kitchen wing was very sympathetically altered into accommodate the remolding of the kitchen area.The windows in this section are simple with been inherited from his father Nicholas Longworth.In the 1830's and 1840's this property south facade.A large wall dormer and irregularly spaced doors.and windows mark the small round headed windows in the gable as well as the two story bay.

The eastern gabled -deteriorated The plaster band in the coved ceiling of the wood paneled dining room echos the motif roof and a pair of French doors on the eastern facade are on the second story of this wing. hall shared by the enclosed porch entrance. house are divided horizontally into two.sections by stone mullions; the kitchen windows are a dressed stone-rise out of the blue slate roof. .excellent - good . ruins . fair flanked, dressed stone, round headed door. The first story windows of the main part of the Lillybank's property just to the east of the house. A large rampart-like terrace, which floor.

also acts as a garage, dominates this facade.Double French doors lead to this terrace The seven bay irregularly massed south facade faces Grandin Road.It is marked by original back of the house.In the mid-1940's the entrance drive was moved from Grandin the inspiration for the decorative theme of grapevines on the first floor of the house. story of the solarium wing.A three window shed dormer on the southern side of the gabled OMB No. 1024-0018 Exp. 10-31-84 United States Department of the Interior Item number Baldwin piano. Because of a stone wall which encloses the garden, and is incorporated into Item Number 8 (continued) the Scioto County Courthouse, Portsmouth, Ohio; Kanawha National Bank, Charleston, West Virginia; Audobon Building, New Orleans, Louisiana; and grown up around Lillybanks, the house maintains a detached presence on its

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Significance (3-82) Page Continuation sheet Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places The stone carved mantelpiece with its cartouche surrounded by grape Rookwood Pottery Company was started by Joseph Longworth's daughter Maria, National Park Service carving of this beam is attributed to Cincinnati Woodcarver William Fry William Fry executed the elaborate carving of Joseph Longworth's Italian Villa House "Rookwood,"on whose original property this house lies. privacy set on 1.36 acres in a well-developed suburban area. the early1920s Adkins was in partnership with George Selves Werner. NPS Form 10-900-a The solarium floor is decorated with pastel Rookwood tiles(The William Fry carved much of the screen for the Music Hall organ as well as construction of this house it seems likely that it was a piece done earlier course of the nearby Cincinnati Country Club.

Fry would have been a very old man at the time of the dale antered Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio interior walls of the fireplace add to overall decorative effect. again displaying the grape theme, is the focal point of this room. well-landscaped knoll. A deep woods behind the house borders on the golf Church, among others, in Cincinnati. He also designed the City Hall, This Lillybanks Although the neighborhood of large, expensive suburban houses have An approximately ten foot carved beam divides the beamed ceiling of the living room from a smaller anteroom leading to the north terrace.This parapet-like terrace on the north facade prevents a clear view from the winning first prize in the Paris Exposition of 19oo for his carving on a The house is set just behind the crest of a hill above Grandin Road.

Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric - archeology-historic _ conservation - law - science _ economics - literature - sculpture . education - military - social/ . engineering - music . theater - industry _ invention -other (specify) Statement of Significance

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(in one paragraph) of day-lillies, hence the name. The house was built on a slightly larger parcel of land, part of the subdivision of of house, necessitating the move of the driveway from Grandin Road to Crabapple Lane, off Mrs. Swing were born in Batavia, Clermont County, Ohio and were the children of early Trained as a lawyer; a graduate in 1894 from the Cincinnati Law School, Swing practiced Swing died on November 28, 1928. His widow continued to live in the house until her death National Bank Building, the Cincinnati gymnasium and Athletic Club and Grace Episcopal 1500-1599 1600-1699 1400-1499 communications Batavia. humanitarian Period Specific dates agriculture 1700-1799art Ohio.There he was very involved in experimenting with modern methods of agriculture. 1900- 8. Significance similar age and style, seen inter-related set on winding streets within the subdivision.

took over the management of several farms recently bought by his father near Harrison, articulated.The main sections of this house are unaltered from their 1926 appearances. Southern District of Ohio.Mrs. Swing was the daughter of Judge Allen Trimble Cowen of John Scudder Adkins was the architect for the house.He was well known in Cincinnati placed walls, imparts the air of dignity and privacy characteristic.of this style.Tudor (as well as the New York and Cincinnati Stock Exchange).Because of his agricultural knowledge Swing's opinion on matters concerning grain were highly valued in his firm.In details, such as wall dormers, stone mullioned windows and decorative stone work are well of South Rookwood Drive.

job as a statistician with W.E.Hutton and Company,investment brokers.W.E.Hutton was Lillybanks is set apart physically, because it faces Grandin Road; and in feeling because also involved in cotton and grain dealing and held a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade the Swing Electric Company; both concerns however were sold by 1920.In 191l Philip Swing Lillybanks was completed in 1926 for Phillip C.and Bessie Cowen Swing.Both Mr.and "Lillybanks"is significant in the Cincinnati area asa fine example of Tudor Revival He was named to the board of the Stock Exchange in 1926 and.as president in 1927.Philip law in Cincinnati until 191l.In 1902 he and his brother Richard started the Cincinnati, - archeology-prehistoric - community planning - landscape architecture - religion X architecture _art _ exploration/settlement - - philosophy - politics/government _ transportation Joseph Longworth's Rookwood estate.

Other houses built in the Rookwood Subdivision, of The ground slopes steeply in front of the house to Grandin Road and is planted in a bank of its air of privacy. In the mid-1940's two parcels of land were developed to the east 1926 1800-1899 commerce in 1957. Clermont County settlers.Swing's father Peter Fletcher Swing was the U.S.Judge of the 9.

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Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property - Quadrangle scale 1:24000 State 11. Form Prepared By October, 1982 P.O. Box 6204 street & number Cincinnati, Ohio 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: _ national As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89 according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. State Historic Preservation Officer signature I hereby certify that this property is included in the National Register 45206 513-961-4029 code county date organization Easting Northing Zone telephone Attest: name/title Tuttle Historic Investigations UMT References Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, Deceased by Henry and Elsie Elisabeth H.

Tuttle 1.36 acres Chief of Registration Keeper of the National Register List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries American Biography:A new Cyclopedia American Historical Society Inc.N.Y1933 city or town For NPs use only Hamilton County, OH, and Parcel III situated in Section 32, Town 4, Fractional Range 2, Columbia Township in the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County Quadrangle name Cincinnati East SHPO Ohio situated in Section 32,Town 4,Fractional Range 2,in City of Cincinnati, 665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated Xlocal 143|33|860 Dato Due: 2/7/83 Reviewer _ Recom. / Criteria - -technical corrections cited below -substantive reasons discussad below Name Location Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 7.

Description Lillybanks REJECT OHIO RETURN completeness Date summary paragraph alterations/integrity clarity 6. Representation in Existing Surveys resubmission Hamilton County Entered in the nomination by person or local government boundary selection owner objection Action: Nomination returned for: Discipline EVALUATION/RETURN.SHE _see continuation sheet Federal Agency: comments: Working No.JUN 9 1983 7/24/83 Checked justification of exception 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data 11. Form Prepared By Signed - completeness context Date clarity Maps Photographs Other the resource Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to relationship of integrity applicable criteria 12. State Historic Preservation Officer Certification 8. Significance justification of areas Phone: 202 272 -3504 summary paragraph relating significance to 1.Lilly banks 4. Sept. 1982 4. Sept.

1982 1.Lill banks 4. September, 198Z 1. Lillyloanks Camerz fauing north east 4. September, 1982 6. east facade- 1.Lilly banks 6. West facade I. Lillybanks 4. September, 1982 1. Lillybanks 4. September, 1982 1.Lilly banks 4. Sept. 1982 1. Lillubanks Camera facip east 4.September, 198 2 6. stone mantel-piece in dining room 1. Lillybanks T. September, 1982 4. September, 1982 1. Lilly bzanks 1. Lillybanks 3. Zlioabeth Tuttle 4. September, 1982 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) E0 N39075-W84225/7.5 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CINCINNATI EAST QUADRANGLE CINCINNATI EAST, OHIO Lillybanks Ohio