Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in
1979. 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
“Beech Avenue Houses is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on February 16, 1979.”
Wikipedia article Beech Avenue Houses, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 314 National Register listings in Hamilton County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · one of 9 National Historic Landmarks in Hamilton County.
National Register reference number.79001853- 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 5,528 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Beech Avenue Houses between 1819 and
1975: 2,721 Fungi, 1,574 Animalia, 887 Plantae, 294 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
6 workings within 5 miles of Beech Avenue Houses: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tin. 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
pending.
Named in the fire insurance atlases
Sanborn surveyors printed an index of the
town's establishments at the front of each atlas. This property is named in
one, read straight off the scanned sheet.
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
by gable wall dormers, small triangular dormers and a hipped dormer. composed of turned columns, bracing, spindle work and gable roof, and The small gable is accentuated by a sunburst CONDITION motif. courses. DETERIORATED pierce roof. Distinguished by Queen Anne architectural style and exhibiting asymmet- FAIR _UNEXPOSED This 2 story high building is distinguished by its domestic victorian decorative cuts and the sills are composed of continuous running string- across the front facade. X.UNALTERED CHECK ONE columns and segmental arch supporting roof.
The front facade exhibits a pediment gable with decorative bracing The frontispiece is distinguished byapaneled door with half side pediment with decorative medallion in relief on the front facade and The exterior walls are brick with stretcher bond wall treatment and The building is asymmetrical in plan and rests atop a raised water The wall material is wood and the wall treatment is composed of fish- has a boxed decorative cornice. wood window surrounds complete the trim.
tive gable wall dormers envolving into a truncated hip roof with metal broken by an angular brick motif on front facade.The front facade 1120 Beech terra cotta chimney pots.The wall dormer exhibit a small projecting The fenestration is regular with narrow paired l/l double hung and brackets further highlight the gable ends.Two small gable dormers is a rectangular projecting bay with a large window supported by by a decorative roof and finial project off the north facade. The first.floor front facade is dominated by a raised open porch -GOOD LRUINS architectural detailing. scale shingle clapboard, vertical board and diagonal board appearing supporting a circular opening. A 1/1 double hung window is beneath this. lights.
plan, and large corbeled chimneys are characteristic of the style. This After receiving an early musical training he bacame, at age 16 the or- Symphony from 1898 to 1908. the St. Lawrence Church in Cincinnati and for giving violin, piano and structed in c. 1885 the building exhibits the architectural thought of same scale, but of less architectural distinction. 1700-1799 1400-1499 COMMUNICATIONS RELIGION ART AGRICULTURE X1800-1899 TRANSPORTATION PHILOSOPHY THEATER BUILDER/ARCHITECT SCIENCE PERIOD ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC EDUCATION PREHISTORIC LAW SCULPTURE INDUSTRY 1900- ECONOMICS ENGINEERING XARCHITECTURE building exhibits these characteristics. .EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT organ lessons.
istic victorian architectural detailing.Its asymmetrical plan and fa- is significant for architectural history because it exhibits distinctive in Cincinnati for his musical accomplishments.He contributed to music The utilization of mixed wall materials, projecting bays asymmetrical characteristics of the style. The asymmetrical composition is enhanced by maintain them. .INVENTION these were light masses and the St.Cecilia Hymnal.This was the official During his life he composed over 5o major works for organ music.Among the period for incorporating varied details and elements that composed the large massing of elements particularly the strong gable wall dormers.
-CONSERVATION cades, mixed wall treatment and decorative roof treatment are character- _1600-1699 hymnal of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and was used extensively through- a visual display of form and workmanship. in Cincinnati and to the music of the Catholic Church throughout America. _LITERATURE _MILITARY _1500-1599 XMUSIC Constructed in c.1886 the Queen Anne styled building at:1l28..Beech.Avenue The buildings most famous resident was Schehl (l882-1959) 1andscaped lot, the two, when taken together create a distinctive visual and architectural setting.
Because the two buildings are adjacent to each other, separated by a ganist at St.Stanislaus and started playing the organ for the Cincinnati istic of the architectural exhuberance associated with the period.Con- out the United States.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001853, 23 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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