Madam Fredin's Eden Park School and Neighboring Row House
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
“Madam Fredin's Eden Park School and Neighboring Row House is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on November 29, 1979.”
Wikipedia article Madam Fredin's Eden Park School and Neighboring Row 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.
National Register reference number.79001858- 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 6,249 specimens
collected within 10 miles of Madam Fredin's Eden Park School and Neighboring Row House between 1819 and
1975: 3,204 Fungi, 1,705 Animalia, 925 Plantae, 364 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 Madam Fredin's Eden Park School and Neighboring Row 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
2,137 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
random patterened rock faced ashlar.Window sills and belt courses are 922-932 Morris Street is a six unit row house constructed of smooth-faced porch roofs and projecting bays.and under some windows on the second floor) mansard, gable and porch roofs. Some of the original iron balconies (over These two row houses constitute a major component of the Walnut Hills appropriate that these two buildings be nominated together. approach porches are all symmetrically treated to produce an elegant unified remain.Mansard and other roofs are steeply pitched. Corner buttress and pointed). Rear facades are of brick above a stone English basement. Street anchor the south-west corner of the Walnut Hills Historic District.
and window photos #5 & 6).The overall design exhibits details exhibits an exuberant approach to row house design.The.enormous variety ofa"stone castle".Street photo are constructed ina The two "High Victorian"row houses facing Eden Park on Morris row house.The tower of 930 has been removed; cresting over the central tower Areas of Significance - Check and justify below - prehistoric .conservation . science - sculpture _ education . military X 1800-1899 - philosophy . 1900- . communications - politics/government . invention other (specify) Statement of
Statement of significance
(in one paragraph) scholar and educator. to east. 922-932 Morris, probably constructed as single family residences, 1700-1799 theater transportation economics industry humanitarian commerce exploration/settlement Builder/Architect engineering Period music literature law social/ 8. Significance continguous row house architecture in the city.As Madam Fredin's Eden six private girls schools at that time and the only one where pupils Madam Fredin and her husband, August Fredin the French Consul in Cincinnati, contributed to the educational and cultural life in Cincinnati.Madam honored by being selected as the first President.
938-946 Morris was constructed over several years as Madam Fredin's Eden Fredin conducted a private school for girls in this city.It was one of represents a uniquely.sensitive adaptation of a symmetrical row design to women.Many of the best families in Cincinnati sent their daughters to the a topographically difficult site; the Western one-third of the houses) upon the organization of a local branch of the order, Madam Fredin was were permitted to stay with the family with French strictly spoken in the - art _ archeology-prehistoric - _ community planning _ landscape architecture- _ religion _ archeology-historic X architecture c. 1880 language and literature, deing decorated with the Palms Academique by the French Academy.
The L'Alliance Francaise was founded by August Fredin and The scale of the row houses ascend in stair step fashion from-west drops approximately eight feet felow the level of the remainder of the row. 1500-1599 1600-1699 1400-1499 Specific dates The buildings are worthy of nomination to the National Register family. The courses were designed for the primary, preparatory and collegiate Park Fredin had the National reputation as a French because they are two of the most outstanding examples of "High Victorian" levels with.the pupils being fitted to pass the Harvard Examinations for _agriculture 9.
Quoted from the National Register nomination
for reference 79001858, 17 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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