Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1970. 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
“The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic home in Cincinnati, Ohio which was once the residence of influential antislavery author Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and a boarding house for African Americans known as the Edgemont Inn and Tavern.”
Wikipedia article Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Cincinnati, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.70000497- 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.
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.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 6,558 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Stowe, Harriet Beecher, House between 1819 and
1975: 3,347 Fungi, 1,844 Animalia, 930 Plantae, 385 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 19 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Stowe, Harriet Beecher, House: 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.
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
2,259 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.
Description of the property
The house is a simple 2-story brick structure with gabled roof, single A bay window has been added to one side, a late Classic Revival porch Harriet Beecher Stowe and of the role of the Negro in American history. and Cincinnati, and the others to the contributions of the Negro to American life, the African background of the Negro and the life of the Negro in America both before and after the Civil War. CONDITION APR Excellent Ruins The appearance of the house has been altered considerably over the years. The Cincinnati organizations and individuals interested in the preservation first floor presently contains seven major rooms.
The structure was strengthened and repaired by The Ohio Historical Society, was a 2-story veranda at the rear.The interior arrangement consisted has been built at the front and a large wing erected at the rear.The of the home as a museum and The Ohio Historical Society were responsible chimney at either end anda 3-part front facade.Originally there of a central hall with one room to each side. (Check One) - Moved and the building is now open to the public as a museum of the work of Good Fair Original Site PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian | X 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) early 1830's AREAS OF
Statement of significance
Biblical authority, came from the East to head Lane Seminary in Cincinnati. the seminary president's house on Gilbert Ave. Harriet, at the suggestion 1835 when Harriet became engaged to Calvin Stowe. years after her marriage to Stowe, professor of Biblical literature at ship at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. she helped a servant-girl escape, visited the Ripley, Ohio home of the abolitionist Rev. John Rankin, observed mass hysteria in the riots against weekly from Washington, D.C. It was her friend Bailey who was to present 1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin appeared in book form and sold 50,000 copies in two months. The book brought Harriet fame and fortune, and her influence both in the literary and political fields was great. She died in 1896 at 85.
one of the noted leaders of the antislavery movement within the Presbyterian Memorial Association, which gave the property in 1945 to the State of Ohio. Communications Commerce Engineering losophy Science Architecture SIGNIFICANCE Aboriginal Transportation Theater Landscape Political itarian Music NATIONAL Invention REGISTER Industry Conservation father's residence as president of Lane Seminary.After Rev.Beecher left Magazine in April,1834.Her literary production was curtailed for several Seminary at the corner of Fourth and Sycamore Streets.They gave it up in Religion/Phi.
The house in which Harriet spent much of her years in Cincinnati was her In Cincinnati Harriet received her education in the evils of Negro slavery: Kentucky where she saw first-hand the workings of the plantation system and James G.Birney and his antislavery Philanthropist in 1836and journeyed to Uncle Tom's Cabin to the world in 1851-52.Harriet wrote her famous novel In 1832 Dr. Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian minister and the country's leading His daughters, Catherine and Harriet, made the trip also.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 70000497, 17 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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