East Second Street District

stories, & had porches on the N, E & S sides. Window doors open onto iron 8 large chimneys. Inside, a center hall contained a circular stair rising to floors, an additional (sewing) room at the front of the 2nd floor hall & a porch into a sun-room & a lavatory; the building of closets into the 2nd floor -into one & dividing the E rear bedroom into 2 more & a connecting hall.

off for a concealed stair leading from outside (through a window converted still provides a focal point at the entry, make one unaware that anything ss included are carved wood, overmantles, colorful glazed brick, multi-colored CONDITION Moved Deteriorated tapering 8-sided porch columns supporting a paneled entablature with cornice Structural changes include the loss of the outbuildings & addition of bracketed cornice in which rectangular panels alternate with pairs of windows which have remained free from later subdivision & building. balconies on the W.

At the back of the property, which was surrounded by a The walls are white plaster, the woodwork has a very old coat of pelham gray tile hearths,& cast-iron fronts painted as marble.Some original accessor- It has an irregular plan & a surface ornamented by carved stone & 3-D brick- was not rebuilt, but the stair was replaced by an open-well, two-run stair td while the doors are painted & grained as mahogany & have silver-plated hard- architecture & have in common large lots extending the depth of a city block The H.-K.

it became the home, through marriage into the family, of the poet, journalist & Ohio statesman Coates Kinney, whose verse was characteristic of his era & sisters, who received their houses from their father on the occasion of their Xenia banker, who held city & county office & was at the time of his death a representative to the Ohio legislature (1891-1893). In 1881 he built the Born in N.Y. state, Kinney came to Ohio in 1840 where he studied & practiced law, & at various times owned &/or edited several Xenia, Springfield, Cincin- nati & Columbus newspapers & The Genius of the West, a Cincinnati literary served in the ohio senate, where he became the leading Republican speaker & authored the temperance amendment to the constitution, adopted in 1882.

Shields,_continued in residence until their deaths, Mrs. Shields dying last possible for a renter, wishes to buy the house & preserve it. Conservation Engineering Aboriginal Commerce Architecture Religion/Phi Literature Music Pre-Columbian Landscape Agriculture Social/Human- Art itarian the present year.Additional prestige was gained by the Hivling House when Greene Co. houses designed by Hiram Brown, was an effort to outdo his eleven Urban Planning Communications The architecture of each is impressive & representative of its period. They present tenants, who keeps this house in excellent order insofar as this is remaining old houses & are in an area more immediately threatened than some.