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One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
United States Playing Card Company Complex
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1898.
The listing
- Address. 4590 Beech St., Norwood
- When was it listed? June 2015
- Category. building
- Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
- Architect. Samuel Hannaford and Sons
- National Register reference number. 15000044 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of United States Playing Card Company Complex: 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.
| Where | 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 |
Maps showing this location
7 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, 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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Twentieth Century Theatre | 0.6 miles | 1993 |
 | Norwood Municipal Building | 0.9 miles | 1980 |
 | Cincinnati Street Gas Lamps | 1.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Withrow High School | 1.3 miles | 1983 |
 | La Tosca Flats | 1.3 miles | 1999 |
 | Cincinnati Observatory Building | 1.4 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 15000044 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.
- 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.