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 Wilson-Gibson House is a historic residence in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the middle of the 19th century, it features a mix of two prominent architectural styles, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Wilson-Gibson 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.76001444- 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 6,463 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Wilson-Gibson House between 1819 and
1975: 3,272 Fungi, 1,843 Animalia, 928 Plantae, 369 Protozoa, 32 Unrecorded, 18 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Wilson-Gibson House: 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.
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
1,984 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
have simple lintels and sills made of stone. The central bay on each floor the inclusion of a carved architrave composed of large flanking, fluted The west side of the house is distinguished by a square bay window with entabla ture on the ground floor, a Palladian-type window and a small In all probability the Gibson House originally consisted of only the front DESCRIPTION UNEXPOSED CONDITION DETERIORATED UNALTERED XALTERED top surrounded by a railing. by alternating Doric columns and square piers.The area between the decorated with a simple bracketed cornice and plain frieze.There are is two and a half stories high, constructed of brick with a coursed stone interior double end chimneys. windows.
A small square room also projects from this side with a deck on X_ORIGINAL SITE are later nineteenth century. is composed of a semi-elliptical fanlight with decorative mullions and capitals and the second floor railing is comprised of a cornice, dentils are occupied by double hung windows,6 over 6 with shutters.The windows XEXCELLENT The Gibson House is a rectangular building with a rear wing extending from the roof area. The east side also has a projecting square bay on the first floor and dormer -GOOD - RUINS _FAIR sidelights with decorative mulli ons. The delicacy of the mullions create the southwest corner of the house and creating an L-shaped plan. The house is occupied by a pair of double door entrances. The second floor entrance an almost lace-like pattern in the lights.
The panels of the doors are pilasters and a curved molding. The second floor doors open onto a deck which is surrounded by a railing composed of balustrades. The first dor floor doors open onto a veranda. The porch of the veranda is supported block with interior chimneys.
Latrobe or Hoban and is considered a highly refined example of the Federal Style. It would be only conjecture to' say that the architecture of this house was influenced by the Taft Museum, however, the possibility should 1860 1700-1799 1400-1499 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC COMMERCE SCIENCE PERIOD AGRICULTURE THEATER ART SIGNIFICANCE PREHISTORIC MILITARY _TRANSPORTATION LITERATURE XARCHITECTURE _RELIGION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _POLITICS/GOVERNMENT semi-elliptical fan lights and sidelights, have double interio chimneys, derived from the Federal and Classical styles of architecture combine in Board of Park Commissioners. this house to create a sophisticated example of a transitional style.
INVENTION _EDUCATION _ENGINEERING _CONSERVATION The Gibson House is an example of a transitional style of architecture on the National Register) had been built in Cincinnati in 1820 by either -1600-1699 -ECONOMICS _INDUSTRY - 1900- -LAW _COMMUNITY PLANNING style of architecture. There was a her death the property and the house will be deeded over to the Cincinnati popular local architect by the name of James Keys Wilson living in Cincinnati at this time, but there is no documentation to indicate that in 1911. His daughter, Katherine Gibson, is the present owner.
Upon BUILDER/ARCHITECT Unknown ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC that time and 1859 the land was owned by various parties.James Wilson six-over-six windows and are both of brick.The architectural elements Court House records show that the house was built in 1860.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 76001444, 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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