Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1975. 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
“Joseph Ferris House is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on June 30, 1975. It is in the village of Fairfax, about 1 mile south of Mariemont.”
Wikipedia article Joseph Ferris House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.75001417- 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.
Specimens collected near this property
12 of 7,482 shown
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. Museums hold 7,482 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Ferris, Joseph, House between 1819 and
1975: 4,218 Fungi, 1,835 Animalia, 938 Plantae, 437 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 22 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown.
Collected by 14753, A Schwartz, A. 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Ferris, Joseph, House: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Titanium, Zirconium. 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.
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From the nomination file
2,001 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
chimneys on the east and west which are joined by a flat parapet. where the porch joins the house. third level there is a window above each opening on the second level. on each side by a 6/6 double hung sash window with black louvered In the early 1960's the present address was given the house when a road was put in next to the house. On this road, to the rear of Wooster Pike, is a gasoline station. CONDITION REGISTER RECEIVED NATIONAL the Ferris House, are several office buildings designed in a neo- All the windows have gauged brick there are black This house is a three and a half story, red brick building with Original Site to the east from this addition. (Check One) There is a recent addition to the south of the original building.
The house originally faced on Wooster main thoroughfare. MAR 14 1975 At the ground level there are windows with 12/8 double hung sash It is one and a half stories with gable roof and an irregular floor West.On the south side there is an exterior end chimney flanked X Good is covered by a flat roofed porch with a dentilated cornice support- plan. It has a porch supported by three Doric columns and a gable roof portion set at right angles with a Palladian window that faces The north and south facades are laid in Flemish bond. The main try, located on the second level, has an eliptical fanlight with and flat fluted Ionic pilasters which flank the entry. The entry on each side of the porch. There are two 6/6 double hung sash windows on each side of the entry on the second level.
This house is a good example of Federal Style architecture. to 1800 they bought 240 acres which they divided equally among MAR I 4 1975 Commerce Conservation 1820 Architecture Communications losophy Military Literature Aboriginal Religion/Phi Art RECEIVED itarian Agriculture Music Sculpture Political family. and now it is an office building. was born in son of Jeduthian Revolution- was this operation gave its name to a nearby ravine stipulated in the will of Phoebe last house and brought in a teacher from the east.
At the turn of the Peabody Institute of Boston con- was interested in their education and sohe built a brick school- In the 193o's the house was used as the "Joseph Ferris Memorial was owned by Harvard University but it later reverted to the known as whiskey Hollow.Ferris was prosperous and eventually 1799 he moved west with his brothers Eliphalet and Andrew.Prior was built by Joseph died in 1820.Ferris acquired over 7oo acres.He and his wife had eight children. surviving member of the family.For a while it was used asa and removed a majority of what was found.At one time the area August 1, 1933. Ford, Henry A. and Ford, Mrs. Kate B., History of Cincinnati, Ohio, A. Williams & Co., Publishers, Cleveland, Ohio: 1881.
Cincinnati, A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighborhoods, WPA, 1943. Cincinnati Planning Commission, 1960.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 75001417, 13 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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