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William Howard Taft National Historic Site (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1969. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1914.

From the record

One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1969 · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • Address. 2038 Auburn Ave., Cincinnati
  • When was it listed? October 2015
  • Category. building
  • When was it built? 1969
  • National Register reference number. 15000753 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of William Howard Taft National Historic Site (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation): 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin, Lead, Antimony, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Avril Co/ Cincinnati, OhioTin, Lead, AntimonyUnknown
N L Industries/ Cincinnati, OhioZirconiumUnknown
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
George L. Rack PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
William Howard Taft National Historic Siteunder 500 feet1966
Mount Auburn Historic District0.2 miles1973
Henry Powell House0.2 miles1980
Jacob D. Cox House0.2 miles1975
Glencoe-Auburn Hotel and Clecoe-Auburn Place Row Houses0.3 miles2003
Gorham A. Worth House0.3 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 15000753 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton CountyAll 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.