Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1978. 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 Hoffner Historic District is a historic collection of buildings in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built primarily at the end of the nineteenth century, the district has experienced few changes since it was built, and it has been named a historic site.”
Wikipedia article Hoffner Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1978 · category: District · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.78002077- 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 6,118 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hoffner Historic District between 1819 and
1975: 2,943 Fungi, 1,858 Animalia, 968 Plantae, 298 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
3 workings within 5 miles of Hoffner Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
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
3,202 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
Behind the Hofiner Lodge are six privately owned residences, all built during the latter part of the 19th Century. The buildings are all house situated at the corner of Moline and Langland'häs a bracketed CONDITION DETERIORATED EXCELLENT DESCRIPTION The Hoffner Lodge is a three story brick building, basically rectangular commercial/social structure built in the Italianate style popular in Originally all of the gables had carvings above the windows and all entrances are placed along the south side and northeast corner of the houses are isolated from the main business area of Cumminsville and rest on.a carved base and a small overhang supported by decorative Located behind the row os houses is the Myron Johnson Lumber Company create a secluded residential island in a commercial area.
light with multi-panes dividing the windows into thirty-five small A tower located to the left of the building has rounded windows with XUNALTERED CHECK ONE examples of nineteenth century commercial buildings:" mansard roofs with a single gabled dormer set into the roof. _UNEXPOSED XGOOD PHOTOS heavy, curved brackets. in existence. of the Hoffner Lodge are also well preserved, basically unaltered rectangular in plan and two stories high. All have flat roofs. cornice along the roof line. The other five houses have modified of the houses had carved wooden porches. Several of these have been the building was angled off and the main entrance placed in the angle. The door is surrounded by a decorative metal architrave. Secondary DATE The squares. string course.
3/4" auger höles.: A feud developed and a series of lawsuits in which Cummins property was acquired by Jacob Hoffner, a celebrated traveler INVENTION INDUSTRY LAW AGRICULTURE THEATER ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION 1500-1599 ART POLITICS/GOVERNMENT PERIOD X1800-1899 _COMMUNICATIONS SIGNIFICANCE LITERATURE XARCHITECTURE ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC private residences contained in the Hoffner Historic District, _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT create a capsulized architectural version of late nineteenth The Johnson Lumber Company was originally the freight station for the beginnings and was the first sub-station in Cincinnati.
_TRANSPORTATION also served the community asa saloon and trucking company before The Hoffner Historic District is located in the Cincinnati suburb of _COMMERCE _PHILOSOPHY 1873 Cumminsville was incorporated into the City of Cincinnati. Cumminsville on the section of land granted by charter to John Cleves _ENGINEERING Dummins in l845 when tne area attained official village status. being renovated by the Myron G.Johnson Lumber Company in 1972. a stream as much water that would flow through a box having eight -1400-1499 -1700-1799 _ECONOMICS established the"Hotel of the Golden Lamb"in l8ll and the northwest - MILITARY - RELIGION -MUSIC -1900- Cummins had four acres that adjoined the Hutchinson property where and sold. Cumminsville in 1850.
The Hoffner Lodge, commercial buildings, old freight depot, and Symmes in the 18th Century. This particular section was known as the time. After his death in 1891, the grounds were abandoned, subdivided BUILDER/ARCHITECT Unknown of the reportedly finest estates in this part of the country at that Mill Creek Township and was purchased by Ezekiel Hutchinson in l8ll he built a tannery and leased from Hutchinson the right to take from both men mortgaged their land to cover legal expenses.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 78002077, 29 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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