Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century public building. Not a photograph of this place.

Isaac M. Wise Temple-Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.

From the record

One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2019 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Wise, Isaac M., Temple-Center - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3771 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, 45229
When was it listed? 2019-03-19
Category. building
City. Cincinnati city
National Register reference number. 100003527 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

The ground it stands on

1,616 words

The chapter on Cincinnati City in ... History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881 names Cincinnati. This is what it says, exactly as the scans read.

The reader looks forward to this, the first history of Cincinnati that has yet found itself in print. The writers look back across its half-century of chapters and the century of years embraced by its annals, and have, chiefest of all, to regret many unavoidable errors, both of omission and commission. The more important of these, it is hoped, will appear in our page of errata; but there are still many, doubtless, that have escaped the compilers' attention. In a few cases, discrepancies appear between their statements and those of an extract immediately following. In those instances they must assure the reader that the former rest upon an authority believed to be superior to the other in regard to the matter in hand; but time and space could not always be taken for the discussion and settlement of points concerning which there are variant reports. In all really important matters, they believe the history will be found quite trustworthy, especially when corrected from the page of errata.

Passage source: ... History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

Within the decade whose annals have just been passed in review, fell the birth of Cincinnati township, to which was entrusted, for almost twelve years, the government of Cincinnati village, which it of course contained. The township was created, after Columbia, by the court of general quarter sessions of the peace, which then had jurisdiction in these matters, in 1791. To the time of the erection of these townships, the whole county, which contained but a few hundred white inhabitants, was most conveniently governed as one municipality.

Passage source: ... History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches, published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Cincinnati City - 1,616 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.

Specimens collected near this property

12 of 6,645 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 6,645 specimens collected within 10 miles of Isaac M. Wise Temple-Center between 1819 and 1975: 3,423 Fungi, 1,857 Animalia, 929 Plantae, 385 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 Chromista, 1 Bacteria. 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.

Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
Clavaria striata Pers.	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	College Hill
Corticium polyporoideum Berk. & M.A.Curtis	1899	C.G. Lloyd	Cincinnati
Microsphaera diffusa Cooke & Peck	1899	Aiken, Walter H.	Cincinnati
Quercus × leana Nutt.	1819	Thomas Nuttall	3 miles North of Cincinnati
Atrichum angustatum (Brid.) Bruch & Schimp.	1820	T. G. Lea	probably Cincinnatti
Barbula unguiculata Hedw.	1820	T. G. Lea	probably Cincinnatti
Sebacina calcea (Pers.) Bres.	1827	Lloyd C. G.	Linwood
Rhus venenata DC.	1830	Clark, Joseph	North of Cincinnati
Equisetum arvense L.	1834	Short, Charles Wilkins; Lea, Thomas G.	Cincinnati
Carex comosa Boott	1835	Collector unspecified	In citivate Ohio prope Cincinnati. [Inferred locality from precise loc.]
Carex lupulina Muhl. ex Willd.	1835	Joseph C. Frank	Cincinnati.
Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel	1897	Kellerman, W.A.	College Hill

All 6,645 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Isaac M. Wise Temple-Center: 3 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Tin, Lead, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Avril Co/ Cincinnati, Ohio	Tin, Lead, Antimony	Unknown
Continental Mineral/ Sharonville Oh	Zirconium, Titanium	Unknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, Ohio	Zirconium	Unknown
George L. Rack Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
George L. Rack Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

60 of 70 shown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2001	Lightning	Cincinnati	1 hurt	A woman was injured when lightning struck the building and went through electronic equipment into her phone headset.
March 2017	Flood	Cincinnati	$100,000	Dozens of basements were flooding across Hamilton County due to high water.
November 2017	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$100,000	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.
February 2000	Lightning	Cincinnati	$100,000	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.
August 2000	Lightning	Cincinnati	$80,000	Lightning struck a home causing a fire on the second floor.
January 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$70,000	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$50,000	Trees were downed. Ceiling tiles were ripped from a parking garage and at least one car was damaged.
January 1997	Lightning	Cincinnati	$50,000	no account filed
July 1996	Lightning	Cincinnati	$50,000	no account filed
July 1998	Lightning	Cincinnati	$40,000	Lightning struck a home causing a fire, which caused significant damage.
April 2024	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$30,000	Three units of apartments along MLK Drive had to be evacuated due to high water. Rushing water also caused damage to some roads in Columbia Township.
September 2018	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$30,000	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.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$20,000	Two trees fell on two cars due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$15,000	High water was reported at I-471 and I-71.
December 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$15,000	Trees and power lines were knocked down across the Cincinnati metro area.
June 2017	Flood	Cincinnati	$10,000	There were reports of lingering high water on roadways and some roads remained closed.\|Also, there were reports of some basement flooding in homes.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed throughout downtown Cincinnati.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$10,000	Vehicles were reported trapped in high water due to heavy rainfall near Gest Street and Dalton Avenue.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$10,000	Trees downed across Cincinnati.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$8,000	Trees were knocked down across the county.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$7,000	A large tree fell onto a carport and a garage on Considine Lane.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$5,000	A person had to be rescued from their car due to swift moving high water.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$5,000	A roof was partially torn off of an apartment building due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$5,000	Several trees were knocked down throughout the Clifton area.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$5,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down trees.
April 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$5,000	Trees and power lines downed. One tree fell across a car.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$5,000	Numerous roads flooded due to persistent heavy rainfall.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$5,000	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$5,000	no account filed
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$4,000	Trees and powerlines were downed just north of downtown.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$4,000	High water occurred on River Road near the Krohn Conservancy.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$3,000	Numerous trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$3,000	Large trees were knocked down.
March 2007	Flood	Cincinnati	$3,000	Several roads were flooded and closed throughout the Cincinnati metro area.
October 2007	Hail	Cincinnati	$3,000	Hail ranging from penny to quarter sized occurred from downtown Cincinnati north and east into the Norwood area.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$3,000	Large limbs were knocked down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$3,000	Trees downed.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$2,000	Some neighborhoods had flooded streets due to heavy rainfall.
June 2010	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$2,000	High water was reported over Interstate 74 and Interstate 75.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$2,000	A couple of trees and some power lines were reported down across the northern part of the city.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$1,000	A tree was downed between Sycamore and Main Streets.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$1,000	A large tree was downed.
March 2012	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	$1,000	The second report of flash flooding due to heavy rain in Hamilton County was water rushing across roads in and around the downtown area.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cincinnati	$1,000	Large tree branches were broken due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2011	Heavy Rain	Cincinnati	$1,000	A portion of Interstate 471 had high water on it due to heavy rainfall.
December 2011	Flood	Cincinnati	$1,000	Several roads were reported closed across the county due to flooding caused by heavy rain.
August 2025	Flood	Cincinnati	-	Water was flowing down the Elsinore Place Steps.
March 2023	Hail	Cincinnati	-	Nickel sized hail was reported in Mt. Auburn.
March 2019	Flood	Cincinnati	-	Part of eastbound U.S. 50 was closed due to high water at the Freeman Avenue exit.
September 2018	Flood	Cincinnati	-	Central Parkway was closed due to high water.
April 2015	Hail	Cincinnati	-	Dime size hail fell at the intersection of Lehmann and Radcliffe Roads.
June 2009	Hail	Cincinnati	-	Several reports were received from in and around Cincinnati of three quarters to one inch hail.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	-	Heavy rain caused street flooding through the city.
May 2002	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	-	High water deposited debris at the intersection of Glenview and Kirby Roads.
October 1999	Hail	Cincinnati	-	Report taken from the Spring Grove section of Cincinnati.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Cincinnati	-	Several hours of heavy rainfall caused water to flood across many of the city roads.
June 2016	Hail	Cincinnati	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Cincinnati	-	no account filed
May 2012	Hail	Cincinnati	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Cincinnati	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton County

Newspapers printed here

14 papers

14 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.

Newspaper	Published
Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt	1885 to 1919
Westliche Blätter	1865 to 1919
The Penny Press	1859 to 1860
The Cincinnati Daily Star	1875 to 1880
Daily Cincinnati Republican	1838 to 1842
Cincinnati Daily Press	1860 to 1862
The National Republican and Ohio Political Register	1823 to 1830
The Colored Citizen	1863 to 18??
The Organ of the Temperance Reform	1852 to 1853
The Star	1874 to 1875
The Ohio Organ, of the Temperance Reform	1853 to 1854
The Labor Advocate	1912 to 1937
The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and Commercial Register	1833 to 1838
The National Republican and Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser	1831 to 1833

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1898 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati East quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Cincinnati East quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000 - 3 printings

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Walter Field House	0.1 miles	1980
South Crescent Arms, The	0.1 miles	2021
Mary A. Wolfe House	0.2 miles	1980
Crescent, The	0.2 miles	2014
Richard H. Mitchell House	0.3 miles	1980
Grace Church	0.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003527 in Record Group 79.
Hamilton County	All 371 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.