Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
2005. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
From the record
“(8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service Section Page Matthew McWilliams House Hamilton County, OH overlooking the Ohio River. It is in the neighborhood of Riverside, one of the first suburbs of the city.”
Narrative Statement of Significance, National Register nomination for McWilliams, Matthew, House. Machine-read text.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.05000341- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 4,510 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 4,510 specimens
collected within 10 miles of McWilliams, Matthew, House between 1819 and
1975: 1,970 Fungi, 1,435 Animalia, 848 Plantae, 217 Protozoa, 21 Unrecorded, 19 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by A Schwartz, A. Braun, A. F. Braun and others. Each is a
physical object with a catalogue
number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was
collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be
concluded from a species being absent.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of McWilliams, Matthew, House: 3 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Cincinnati, the town this property stands in, in 70 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 17 hail, 14 flash flood, 7 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Numerous roads were flooded throughout the Cincinnati area and some basements were flooded. Flooding also caused some damage at Reading High School and Whitaker Elementary School.
Lightning struck a home causing a fire in the attic, which spread toward the second floor before being extinguished. Significant fire and water damage occurred to the home.
High water was reported on several roads in the downtown Cincinnati area and the near West Side. A retaining wall collapsed onto a roadway near the intersection of State Avenue and Ernst Street and a building was flooded on Poplar Street. Also, an apartment basement flooded on Linn Street and one resident needed to be rescued.
14 papers published in this town,
digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read: 0 issues,
0 pages. Every page is searchable, so a name or a street can be
looked for directly in what the town printed about itself at the time.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
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From the nomination file
7,452 words on record
When this property was proposed for the
National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is,
and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain.
It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the
occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s
typewriter's.
Statement of significance
Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing) A Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history. B Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past. whose components lack individual distinction. (Page 3) other Narrative Description Materials (Enter categories from instructions) Hamilton County, Ohio 7. Description walls_Wood (weatherboard).
_X_C Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity _D Property has yielded, or is likely to yield information important in prehistory or history. USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form Matthew McWilliams House Hamilton County, Ohio Criteria Considerations (Mark "X" in all the boxes that apply.) -A owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes. _B removed from its original location. _C a birthplace or a grave. _ D a cemetery. _E a reconstructed building, object,or structure. F a commemorative property. G less than 50 years of age or achieved significance within the past 50 years.
Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions) _architecture Period of Significance®. 1807-1840 Architect/Builder_not known (Page 4) 1840 Narrative Statement of Significance (Explain the significance of the property on one or more continuation sheets.) Cultural Affiliation_N/A _The date of 1807is the approximate building date of the original stone structure on the property.Because the Significant Person(Complete if Criterion B is marked above) period of significance for the entire structure. building still exists, it is significant as a relic. The Greek Revival home was built onto the stone building in 1840, thus providing a Significant Dates_c. 1807 OMB No.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 05000341, 51 pages, held by the National Archives in Record
Group 79. See the
catalogue record.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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