Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1976. 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 Charlton Wallace House is a historic residence in the East Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Older than all other houses in the neighborhood, it was constructed in 1840 for a group of French-born Catholic monks who brought the house's elaborate wrought iron up the Mississippi River from New Orleans.”
Wikipedia article Charlton Wallace House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.76001441- 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 6,452 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wallace, Charlton, House between 1819 and
1975: 3,347 Fungi, 1,739 Animalia, 929 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 Wallace, Charlton, 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
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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
1,592 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 Wallace House is a two story structure, T-shaped in plan. The the main block of the house is uncoursed stone for a depth of the entire architectural feature of the house is a pair of rounded arch french doors windows, two-over-two on the second floor and six-over-six on the first the original brick wall."The shutters however, have been removed from the windows. relocated at Woodburn Avenue and Madison Road. CONDITION DESCRIPTION EXCELLENT UNALTERED FAIR Old photographs indicate that the original Catholic church was built XALTERED These doors open onto a small balcony surrounded by a railing of ornate CHECK ONE XORIGINAL SITE in 1850-5l beside this house at the corner of William Howard Taft Road - UNEXPOSED side, first floor.
contours of the land and, because of a hillside,is not a full first floor wrought iron. There are two simple entrances, one on the first floor below the balcony and rectangular structure, made of brick, with an end tower. projecting wing is brick on both floors with a stone foundation while window is located in this gabled area. The most distinguished The building possesses an austerity indicative of the monastic space. The church was also used.This structure was torn down after the church was The roof over the main block of the house is hipped, intersected The windows have simple stone sills and lintels. Throughout the house the windows are rectangular sash (Forest Street) and Hackberry Street.
New Orleans in an apparent attempt to capture a style of architecture rounded arches are emphasiz ed by bricks laid in the manner of voussoirs. The bricks were hand made by an order of French monks between 1840 and The church was a small, -RUINS AREAS OF
Statement of significance
interjection of "French provincial" architectural elements. The Wallace House is the oldest house in Walnut Hills, an early suburb of 1840-49 1500-1599 Spurgeon. Cincinnati. SIGNIFICANCE ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC unknown THEATER ART EDUCATION CONSERVATION BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD LAW X1800-1899 LITERATURE AGRICULTURE XRELIGION this address until recently when the property was sold to Mr. and Mrs. _COMMUNICATIONS XARCHITECTURE _TRANSPORTATION _PREHISTORIC ENGINEERING _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT underground railroad traffic.
_PHILOSOPHY _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT parish house and as its earliest school until they built a new church The Wallace House is an unique example of residential architecture for a parish house for the St.Francis de Sales Catholic Church built on French monks who brought the ornamental wrought iron used in its is already on the National Register of Historic Places as the Saint _1600-1699 - INVENTION the Catholic Church in this area. A room located under a rear porch is believed to have been used for -1700-1799 -SCULPTURE _ECONOMICS - MILITARY -1400-1499 _INDUSTRY The Wallace House was built between 1840 and 1849 byan order of _COMMERCE -MUSIC -SCIENCE 1900. _COMMUNITY PLANNING construction from New Orleans. its early date.
The building combines a definite element of functional The building also played an important role in the early history of the lot next to it in 1850-51. The church used the house as. a. owners. ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC This newer property severity with an unusual quality of romanticism apparent in the and school at Woodburn Avenue and Madison Road. Hackberry Street property until 1926 when it was sold to private In 1849 the house was converted into Between 1933 and 1938 Charlton Wallace purchased the
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001441, 11 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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