Photograph of West Fourth Street Historic District — Photograph by Nyttend, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Fourth Street Historic District (Amendment)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. 7 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1907.

From the record

One of 371 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. W. 5th and Perry Sts. between Central Ave. and Plum St., 4thSt. between Central Ave. and Race St., Cincinnati
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. district
National Register reference number. 79001861 - 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.

Newspapers printed here

14 papers

14 papers published in this town, digitised by the Library of Congress and free to read. 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.

Newspaper	Published
Tägliches Cincinnatier Volksblatt	1885 to 1919
Westliche Blätter	1865 to 1919
The Penny Press	1859 to 1860
The Cincinnati Daily Star	1875 to 1880
Daily Cincinnati Republican	1838 to 1842
Cincinnati Daily Press	1860 to 1862
The National Republican and Ohio Political Register	1823 to 1830
The Colored Citizen	1863 to 18??
The Organ of the Temperance Reform	1852 to 1853
The Star	1874 to 1875
The Ohio Organ, of the Temperance Reform	1853 to 1854
The Labor Advocate	1912 to 1937
The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and Commercial Register	1833 to 1838
The National Republican and Cincinnati Daily Mercantile Advertiser	1831 to 1833

Maps showing this location

7 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1907 USGS Pomeroy quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Rutland quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1980 USGS Wellston quadrangle1:100000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001861 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 371 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.