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
“Hewson-Gutting House is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on December 21, 1979.”
Wikipedia article Hewson-Gutting House, 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.
Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
National Register reference number.79001857- 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 6,146 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Hewson-Gutting House between 1819 and
1975: 2,986 Fungi, 1,868 Animalia, 943 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
4 workings within 5 miles of Hewson-Gutting 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
1,484 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
brick block including the tower,was built in 1862.A second floor bedroom wing, sur- - good - archeology-historic .conservation - sculpture .education . social/ X 1800-1899 exploration/settlement _ - philosophy - politics/government .invention other (specify) War. Unfortunately the name of the architect or builder is unknown. However, the person responsible must have been appraised of the novelty of this style, for he evidences a the good, for he has shown care to retain some of the restrained demeanor of the earlier years, assymetry in plan and elevation would become paramount, especially for domestic windows have a subtle, but wide array of stone arches.
Some are more ornate than others, achieving an architectural unity in spite of the fact that not all of the windows are of the by extrapolation, and indication of the retreat from a more formalistic approach towards cottages to "the palatial residence, with massive walls, and porches, and imposing tower, "palatial residence" was constructed for John H.
Hewson, a partner in Hewson, White & Co., 1862 1400-1499 1500-1599 1700-1799 humanitarian engineering theater industry Period transportation Builder/Architect music Specific dates prehistoric literature 1900- agriculture communications commerce and/or client as regards the changes in architecture that had occurred during the Civil Areas of Significance-Check and justify below military The most conspicuous manisfestation of the eclecticism that was prevalent in Victorian 8.
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) in 1870 discusses the housing in the bedroom community as ranging from the"neat" to another and is more subdued that later examples might be. _science archeology-prehistoric _ .community planning landscape architecture - religion X architecture in domestic architecture in Cincinnati. Furthermore, the significance of the appearance gards the symmetry of both the front facade and the floor plans.
In the succeeding some have brackets, some have incised decorative motifs, but all work together in 1600-1699 same size or kind.Perhaps this diversity can be thought of as the result of allowing This house has certain qualities inherent in a transition from one style upon which wealth has freely used the skill of the best mechanics and artists."This A description of the Cincinnati suburb of Clifton where this property is located written times can be found.on this house:in the diversity of the fenestration details.The _art 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001857, 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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