Nomination for St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District

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AUG 2 1 1989 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service 1. Name of Property St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District other names/site number 2. Location street & number Wy pot for publication city, town State 3. Classification Ownership of Property Category of Property Number of Resources within Property Xprivate J building(s) J public-local X district _sites J public-Federal _ structures Name of related multiple property listing: Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register 0 4.

State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this Romination Lrequest for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. Signature of certifying official State or Federal agency and bureau Signature of commenting or other official 5. National Park Service Certification 1, hereby, certify that this property is: Mentered in the National Register. determined eligible for the National Register. - See continuation sheet. Jdetermined not eligible for the removed from the National Register.

other, (explain:) Date of Action Noncontributing 061 code Total Cincinnati Registration Form REGISTER object public-State Date Ohio National Register of Historic Places NATIONAL National Register. historic name Aicinity See continuation sheet. NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 (hev. 8-86) for Completing National Register Forms (National Register Bulletin 16). Complete each item by marking "x" in the appropriate box or by entering and areas of significance, enter onlythe categories and subcategories listed in the instructions. For additional space use continuation sheets (Form 10-900a). Type all entries. 2145, 2149 and 2153 Queen City Avenue zip code 45214 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (enter categories from instructions) Current Functions (enter categories from instructions) Religion: Church, Church School Domestic: Single Dwelling 7.

Description Materials (enter categories from instructions) foundation - 1-story Side Gabie 2-story Hip Roof They are located in the road, with houses and commercial structures dating from c. buildings are in good condition, although the stone buildings rooflines, many window and door openings, and setting have been essentially undisturbed. bays wide in front with a central entrance flanked by two Windows have 2/2 double hung sash with wood lintels and X See continuation sheet The Stone walls Asphalt Architectural Classification buildings along the road.

The four buildings in the district are composed of a 1-story convey a sense of time and place because their shapes, The St.Peter's Lick Run Stone Historic District is composed of (enter categories from instructions) the Mill Creek and Interstate 75,approximately five miles north have been altered with the application of a stucco coating, room wide and three rooms deep. The one-story gable front church at 2153 Queen City Avenue is The gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles and has a 1850)and a1-story stonemason's house (c.1849)with a shed 1-story Gable Front road, which helped create a narrow, linear arrangement of 1920) in the rear. as a residence and was used as a church from 1843-1869. It is 3 doors and 3 windows, and five windows on the east side. only major alteration to the buildings. The buildings still roof Stucco as residences.

the earliest structure in the district.It was originally built The closely-spaced buildings front directly upon are12-18"thick and are constructedof rough-faced stone.The chimney on the east side.The exterior stone has been covered South Fairmount neighborhood in Cincinnati on the west side of The front entrance has a small wood pediment and wood OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section number - East of this building is the 2-story saddleback hip-roofed have 2/2 wood double hung sash. The lintels have been covered bathroom on the second floor. house with two small additions at 2145 Queen City Avenue. entrance openings have been filled in with stone and have two The gable roof is covered with asphalt shingles.

The one-story, shed-roofed addition directly behind the front section and juts out diagonally along the west property line. the period of significance for the historic district. Page Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places front has four windows presently; the two original central The hip roof has asphalt shingles with a stuccoed chimney small windows in the upper portion. The exterior stone is has wood posts and a simple wood railing.The interior is two A second addition is on the west side rear of the rectangular upper story of the front facade and on the sides and rear and NPS Form 10-900-8 a second story wood porch on the west side. The east wall is on the front facade has been filled in with brick and has a The flat wood lintels above the rectangular plan section is two rooms wide and one room deep. A with permastone on the first floor front.

The central entrance The two shed-roofed sections with vertical siding and has small covered with concrete stucco. The second story porch rectangular plan and is 3 bays wide on the front facade and has 8. Statement of Significance

Statement of significance

Applicable National Register Criteria Areas of Significance (enter categories from instructions) Period of Significance Significant Dates Ethnic Heritage: European c. 1849 c. 1850 Nicholas Schwab - 2145 Queen City Avenue the oldest remnant of a German Catholic settlement west of the neighborhood of Cincinnati is the oldest. Although the period The church and school were the earliest institutions, The house was purchased by the trustees of the German built on an adjacent lot east of the church in the early 1850s 1849 by Nicholas Schwab, a German stonemason, who lived in the family live in the house. LX See continuation sheet 1844-1869 Religion Exploration/Settlement Architect/Builder German Catholics.

The three stone buildings are located on what was historically The St.Peter's Lick Run Stone Historic District on Queen City known as Lick Run Pike in Section 31 of Millcreek Township.The immigrant, purchased 24 acres on the south side of the pike. C.1840 Cultural Affiliation In 1843,a group of 20 German Catholic families began holding 1843,a group of German Catholic farmers and dairymen in the oldest German Catholic church and school in the 19-county area began worshipping in a stone house on Weber's property.

was during a formative time for the German Catholics in the of the district's role in German Catholic history was family and today the fifth and six generations of the Schwab 183& John Weber (German for Weaver),a German Catholic Istatewide Criteria Considerations (Exceptions) Avenue is eligible for listing under Criterion A, because it is services in a stone house which was dedicated as a church in road was named after the creek which it closely followed. In the same year, a cemetery for "Catholics speaking the German nationally third building in the cluster, a stone house, was built around locally Mill Creek in Cincinnati.This district contains the second illustrating the importance of religion in the lives of the Calholic Congregation of Lick Run in 1845.A 2-story school was NPS Form 10-900- United States Department of the Interior National Park Service St.

Peter's Lick Run Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio - Page - name. In 1848, in conformity with this practice, the trustees this period, Germans were the largest group of immigrants into city, predominantly in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, but the outlying rural townships, particularly on the west side of the Mill Creek, had large numbers of German immigrants who were showed 30,628 German immigrants out of a population of 115,438. By 1850, Mill Creek Township, excluding Cincinnati, had 1330 of the Mill Creek also had great concentrations of German immigrants - Green (915), Colerain (686), Delhi (571), and Storrs (498). The cluster of stone buildings is located in Weaversburg, the closer to the Miami-Erie Canal and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad. These were Forbusville, Spring Garden, National Register of Historic Places 1850.

Continuation Sheet Cincinnati and Hamilton County began a tremendous rise.During trustees was very unusual; the property of most other Catholic 24-acre parcel to the group, known as the German Catholic Run, named after the church, just north of Weaversburg.There Pike.The 8-lot subdivision of Weaversburg was made by John transferred the property to Bishop John B.Purcell of the OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 west side of Cincinnati.In1830 only five percent of John Weber sold the stone house in the northeast corner of his first of eight communities settled along or close to Lick Run language" was platted about one mile east, between Lick Run Pike and Harrison Pike to the north. Both of these German Catholic The district is evidence of an early German settlement on the Cincinnati's population was German, a reflection of the entire country.

But during the 1830s and 1840s, German migration into small settlement of St. Peterstown. This community was named after St. Peter's Cemetery, which was adjacent to the east. Congregation of Lick Run. parishes in the Diocese of Cincinnati was deeded in the clergy's Diocese of Cincinnati. three subdivisions were made one mile east and comprised the evidence that they were connected with each other.In 1845, institutions were named after St.Peter, but there is no 1855,James 0liver laid out his subdivision of St.Peter's Lick were five more communities west of the Mill Creek which were Weber on the south side of Lick Run Pike in1848.In 1849, OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Fairmount, Mt. Harrison and Barrsville. These five communities, plus Weaversburg, St.

Peter's Lick Run, and St. Peterstown, been incorporated before the annexation. This district relates to the growth of the Catholic Church in heavy German migration during these decades. Before 1830, the but by the 1840s about three-quarters of them were Catholic. By 1840, 12,000 Catholics (8,800 German and 4,500 arrival, the small number of German Catholics had allied themselves with a German Lutheran church because it was more when there were about 5,000 German Catholics, a parish was on the west side, two contemporaries of these early parishes are 13 of the 15 Roman Catholic churches in Hamilton County were Continuation Sheet National Register of Historic Places German Catholic parishes. city, not counting those who came from rural areas to worship. English-speaking) lived in the city.

the area by Father Frederick Reese, the first German Catholic The Catholic Church was officially established in Cincinnati in neighborhood of South Fairmount.None of these communities had German Catholic parish west of the Alleghenies.This parish is This was the second parish in Cincinnati and was the first important for the German Catholics to be with those who shared were formed in 1844-St.Peter's on Lick Run Pike and St.John the city was made the seat of a bishopric which 1837,there was an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 Catholics in the NPS Form 10-900-8 Cincinnati in 1870. Today this area is known as the included the entire state of Ohio. Germans were encouraged to priest in Cincinnati, as early as 1824. Prior to Father Reese's held for the German Catholics of Cincinnati in the Catholic cathedral of St. Peter-in-Chains on Sycamore Street. In 1834, now discontinued. In 1840, St.

Mary's in Over-the-Rhine was the second German Catholic parish formed and still has its original building which dates from 1842. Two German Catholic parishes Our Lady of Victory in Delhi Township (1843 - with a church Germans in Cincinnati were largely Lutheran and Presbyterian, building dating from 1909) and St. James in White Oak (1844 - numbers of Germans in that neighborhood.St.John the Baptist the Baptist in Over-The-Rhine to serve the rapidly increasing collectively called Lick Run, were annexed to the city of their language and culture.By 1827,separate masses were being Cincinnati which grew rapidly in the 1830s and 1840s due to the OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio with St. Peter's Lick Run parish, which was then discontinued. Queen City Avenue (c.

1870); 1935 Queen City Avenue, which is Avenue may be stone, but are now covered over with stucco and by the National Park Service in 1985. The three buildings were Avenue and White Street. National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet aluminum siding. The St.Bonaventure parish dates its year of founding to 1844 St.Peter's Lick Run Church was the only Catholic church in the new parish named St.Bonaventure was opened in 1869 and merged this claim cannot be documented and the building has been extensively altered.At least two other houses along Queen City eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places almost entirely covered with smooth stucco (c.1860),and a NPS Form 10-900-a St. Peter's Lick Run parish was established. is said to have been the Hamilton County jail in the 1820s, but more promising settlement of Fairmount, which had been laid out Peterstown.

These are a 3-story stone factory building at 1925 Page Section number 8 The St.Peter's Lick Run Stone Historic District was determined Other stone buildings still stand in the South Fairmount intact stone sides.To the building at the only ones determined eligible in the impact area of a road S.

The rest of the file

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

Major Bibliographical References Greater Cincinnati and Its People, Vol. II, Editor in Chief, Alexander L. Lewis, Lewis Historical Pub. Co. (1927) History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati 1821-1921, Rev. John LaMotte, Frederick Pustet Religion and Community: Cincinnati Germans 1814-1870, Joseph White, University of Notre Clerus Cincinnatensis, Vol. V11, No. 1 (1977) Society Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Fall 1984) Titus' Atlas of Hamilton County, published by C.O. Titus, Philadelphia (1869) The Origin and Distribution of Settlement Groups: Ohio 1850, H.G.H.

Wilhelm, Department of Geography, Ohio University (1982) X See continuation sheet Previous documentation on file (NPS): Jpreliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) Primary location of additional data: has been requested State historic preservation office _previously listed in the National Register x previously determined eligible by the National Register designated a National Historic Landmark |recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey # Other Jrecorded by Historic American Engineering Record # Miami Purchase Assoc. tor Historic 10. Geographical Data UTM References Verbal Boundary Description This district includes 2153 Queen City Avenue (37.50'on north, 91.85'on east, 80.96' on south, and 171.86' on west, Pt.

Lot 8, John Weaver's Subdivision); 2149 Queen City Avenue Boundary Justification The three parcels of land included in the district are those which contain the three stone structures and frame shed. 11. Form Prepared By Rita Walsh, Preservation Consultant and Mary Ann Brown, Director Miami Purchase Association 1225 Elm Street street & number Local government organization University Easting Preservation Cincinnati, Northing "German American Catholicism in Cincinnati", Peter W. Williams, Cincinnati Historical Dame (1980) (513) 721-4506 Federal agency Other State agency History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County,published by S.B.Nelson July 1989 Co., Cincinnati (1921) Souvenir of the Diamond Jubilee of St. Bonaventure Church, October 21, 1945 Statistical View of the U.S.

Compendium of the 7th Census, J.D.DeBow (1854) Specify repository: x 220.52' in south side Queen City Avenue, next of westnorth line of George Bauer's Estate city or town. Zone (1894) telephone Acreage of property_Approximately3 acres United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section number _9 Page Book 115,page 491;Book 137,page 414;Book 616 CMB Approvel Na 10840018 Deeds at the Hamilton County Recorder's Office: Book 73, page 292; Book 102, page 45; OMB Approvei No. 10840018 United States Department of the Interlor St.

Peter's Lick Run Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Section number Photos Page - 2149 Queen City Avenue March 1989 Photo #7 Schwab stone house, photographer facing southwest photographer facing west Photograph of the rear yard and shed of the Nicholas Schwab Photo #10 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet stone house, photographer facing south photographer facing south Mary Ann Brown, photographer National Park Service Photograph of the shed of the Nicholas Schwab stone house, Photo #6 Photograph of the east side of the Nicholas Schwab stone house, Photograph of the front (north) and east sides of Nicholas Photo #9 Photograph of the front (north)side of the Nicholas Schwab Photo #8 Photograph of the front a portion of the west side NPB Form 10-800d Photo #5 of the former school building, photographer facing southwest United States Department of the Interlor National Register of Historic Places St.

Peter's Lick Run Historic District, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio St.

Peter's Lick Run Stone Historic District Photograph 1225 Elm Street Photo May 1989 district, photographer facing east Photo #2 2145, 2149 and 2153 Queen City Avenue (left to right) Mary Ann Brown, photographer March 1989 Photo #3 Photo #4 2149 and 2153 Queen City Avenue Rita Walsh, photographer photographer facing southwest church building, photographer facing southeast Continuation Sheet National Park Service Miami Purchase Association for Historic Preservation The city and state for the following ten photographs is Run Stone District Queen City Avenue Photograph of the three stone buildings in the district, Photograph of area adjacent to the three stone buildings in the The location of the original negatives for the following ten Photograph of the front (north)and west sides of the former Photograph of the former school (2149) and church (2153), OMB Approvel No.

1084-0018 Cincinnati, Ohio. Section number Photos Page _ Photograph information: NP8Form10-000-a photographs are of the St.Peter's Lick CINUINNATI, HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO FELSTER BOUNDARIES PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE DIRECTION QUEEN CITY AUE. PROM WHICH THEY WERE TAKEN. OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interlor Section number - SUPPLEMENTARY LISTING RECORD Date Listed:10/4/89 St. Peter's Lick Run Historic Dist. This property is listed in the National Register of Historic Places in accordance with the attached nomination documentation checked on the form.

Barb Powers with the OH SHPO says that this Criteria Consideration National Register property file Page Hamilton State DISTRIBUTION: County Multiple Name Property Name National Park Service Nominating Authority (without nomination attachment) Criteria Consideration A (Religious Property) applies to this Date of Action 10/4 Natlonal Register of Historlc Places Continuation Sheet subject to the following exceptions, exclusions, or amendments, 89001453 notwithstanding the National Park Service certification included Amended Items in Nomination: nomination because one of the buildings was a church.It is not NRIs Reference Number: EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET St.

Peter's Lick Run Historic District NOMINATOR: STATE PROGRAM UNAPPROVED: COMMENT WAIVER: N ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: 10/05/89 8/21/89 REJECT 9/21/89 RETURN DATE MULTIPLE DISCIPLINE PROPERTY PERIOD: REVIEWER NAME: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DATE RECEIVED: NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REASONS FOR REVIEW: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF 16TH DAY: Historian APPEAL: N DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/Nsee attached SIR YAN ACCEPT _count _resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION _summary paragraph _justification of exception GEOGRAPHICAL DATA _verbal boundary description _boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION _photographs _presentation - Phone Period clarity materials FUNCTION context acreage DESCRIPTION completeness other Builder/Architect Date SIGNIFICANCE historic BIBLIOGRAPHY CLASSIFICATION Signed architectural classification sketch maps _current descriptive text USGS maps relationship of integrity to significance Specific dates OTHER COMMENTS applicable criteria relating significance to the resource Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Statement of Significance one paragraph) justification of areas checked UTMS Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to ST PETORS ETCL RUN STONE PHOTO #2 HAMILTOM COUNTY, O HIO HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO PHOTO #5 PHOTO #6 HAMIUTON COUNTY, OHIO ST.

PETERS UICK PUN STONE HAMILTON COUNTY,OTTO PHOTO #9 HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC) UNITED STATES CINCINNATI WEST, OHIO CINCINNATI WEST QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OHIO-HAMILTON CO. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR N3907.5W8430/7.5 BOOK 204 PAGE 18 JOHN WEAVER'S - BEECH AVE SUNSET AVE. WYOMING CINCINNATI HAMILTON COUNTY AUDITORS PLAT St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District GEO. BAUER'S EST. -NALD C. SCHRAMM MINION AVE TILLIEAV 8182 P.2 MAN See Cart.Ne.38119 BOOK 205 PAGE 24 I WESTWOOD ACRES SUB. CINCINNATI FRED GAEFE EST PBIA-PIARG. B. 203 - P. 26 St. Peters Lick Run Historic District RECEIVED JUL 2 1 1989 Room 230, City Hall Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Phone (513) 352-3471 July 19, 1989 Ernest Freeman, AICP Director of City Planning Dr. W. Ray Luce Columbus, Ohio 43211 Attn: Ms. Barbara Powers Dear Dr. Luce: findings, please call Dan Young, of our staff, at (513) 352-3295.

CD : DY Equal Opportunity Employer Sincerely, City Planning Department City of Cincinnati Urban Conservator State Historic Preservation Officer Mary Ann Brown Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue their association with the early development of this section of the city. The Cincinnati Historic Conservation Board, at its meeting on July 17, The Board reaffirmed its earlier finding that the district met National Register criteria A, noting that these three buildings are significant for Lick Run Historic District to the National Register of Historic Places. 1982 Velma Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 August 18, 1989 Ms. Carol Shul1, Chief AUG 2 1 1989 SINCE 1885 P.O. Box 37127 Washington, D.C.

20013-7127 Edwards, William, Farmhouse Gebhart, Pope Mill Hudson, Ohio (MPD) Corbusier, John William Creswell, House Izant, Grace Goulder, House - State Historic Preservation Officer SOCIETY Montgomery County Hamilton 614/297-2470 Greene Mahoning Lucas Summit REGISTER HISTORICAL Historic & Architectural Properties of take the appropriate action on this matter. Enclosed are ten new National Register nominations and one Multiple Property Sincerely. I am requesting a substantive review of National Register of Historic Places Damascus Grade School included with the nomination. denial on a Part 2 tax certification application and the Mid-Atlantic Regional New Submissions Please contact me if you have questions. In a telephone conversation with Barbara Powers of my staff, Patrick Andrus (Boundary Increase) in Summit County.

WRL/BAP:dh Dear Carol: Emcldsures Department of the Interior Office of the National Park Service has questions concerning the property's National Park Service approved the use of labels on the photographs for the Hudson Historic District Ohio Historic Preservation Office Toledo Olde Towne Historic District Hudson Historic District (Boundary Increase) St. Peter's Lick Run Historic District Documentation Form.All of the appropriate notification procedures have been The South School W. Ray Luce Also enclosed isa letter from the property ownersof the Frank Sebring House Porter, Orin, House withdrawing their former objection to the listing of their property. Please followed for these new submissions. eligibility and integrity. Information pertaining to these issues are NATIONAL