Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1977. 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
“Luke's Episcopal Church, formerly the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, is a historic Episcopal church in the Sayler Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Designed in the 1870s by master architect Samuel Hannaford, it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1977 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.77001064- 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 2,384 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Episcopal Church of the Resurrection between 1820 and
1975: 950 Fungi, 747 Animalia, 574 Plantae, 92 Protozoa, 11 Unrecorded, 10 Chromista. 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
15 workings within 5 miles of Episcopal Church of the Resurrection: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 1 plant.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Salt. 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
2,369 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
end. Though lower in height than the original structure, the roofline CONDITION DATE UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED XALTERED XEXCELLENT FAIR side is occupied by a projecting gable-roofed, enclosed entrance.The door The original church is a rectangular, one-story structure built of rock-faced is rock-faced stone. The passage has two Gothic-arched windows.The parish room is square in CHECK ONE _UNALTERED is Gothic arched.Square wood members are used to frame the upper portion the gable.The parapet gable roof extends upward and frames an arched opening to the passagway to the church. Late in the 19th century a small stone addition was made at the north LMOVED - GOOD arched windows. The east side has three windows, the first bay of the east has the same steep pitch.
To the west a frame, one-story "Parish Room" windows. The east side has a rear exterior doorway in addition to the was built.It connects to the rear addition by an enclosed stone walkway. plan and has a gable roof.A pent roof extends from beneath the north and -RUINS AREAS OF
Statement of significance
a prominent, local nineteenth century architect. Charles W. Short (1851-1926) laid out the town of Fernbank in 1875. He His sons, John Cleves Short and Charles W. Short, Jr. erected the Episcopal Hannaford an important local architect most noted for his design of City Hall in Cincinnati, a Romanesque revival building (NR). The contractor was While the structure suggests the quaintness of rural church architecture, the 1600-1699 1877 1400-1499 ART ENGINEERING PHILOSOPHY ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC LAW COMMERCE AGRICULTURE RELIGION PERIOD THEATER 1900- SCIENCE SIGNIFICANCE ECONOMICS SCULPTURE INDUSTRY PREHISTORIC MILITARY _CONSERVATION New York City.
- EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT _COMMUNICATIONS _TRANSPORTATION Mr.C.W.Megness and the stone work was done by a man named Valentine Gindt of Delhi Township.The interior designs were done by Lamb Brothers of parish church architecture and the skill of prominent area builders. was the proprietor of vast landholdings in that area just west of Cincinnati. The Episcopal Church of the Resurrection was built by Samuel Hannaford, The Episcopal Church of the Ressurection is a charming example of nineteenth Church of the Resurrection in the memory of their parents in 1877.The LITERATURE X1800-1899 -1500-1599 - INVENTION -1700-1799 The design of the church was based on drawings taken from an old book on - MUSIC COMMUNITY PLANNING Episcopal Sunday School was founded in the area in 1868.
The first century rural church architecture which displays the influence of English Episcopal Church services were held in private homes beginning in 1874. high quality craftsmanship, throughout the building is readily apparent and BUILDER/ARCHITECT ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC Samuel Hannaford presents a very sophisticated example of rural church architecture.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 77001064, 18 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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